October 25, 2007 | CUNY Lecture Series
In her latest and critically acclaimed biography, “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice,” the sleuthing, at times controversial, New Yorker journalist and author Janet Malcolm unsparingly investigates how the literary figures Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas — two Jewish American lesbians — managed to get through World War II while living in France. Malcolm, author of such penetrating works as “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession”, and “Inside the Freud Archives”, discusses her new book with Wendy Lesser, founding editor of The Threepenny Review literary magazine, at the Graduate Center.
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