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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoThis bookclub thing is great. I just read a book that I like a lot. But it also irritated me, so I want to bitch a bit. The book is Janet Malcolm’s Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. (229 pages although the pages are really short, it’s really more like 50 regular pages, which is a reason in itself to read it.)
I love Janet…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago
This sounds fascinating! How do you think them being a lesbian couple informed the way they acted as a Jewish couple? What do you mean? I don’t really know much about them, I guess, but this book sounds like it has everything I love: lesbians, Jews, artists! I may have to read it.
I don’t know how it would have made a difference, it just seems like it would. That’s what I wanted Malcolm to figure out for me, ha. I would imagine that it would partly depend on what it meant to be a lesbian at that time/place, which I don’t know much about, except for the seemingly very relevant point that the Nazis were doing bad shit to…[Read more]