What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms

Phrased & Confused, in which Eli Burnstein digs into the meaning of some of the famous literary aphorisms of all time, is available now from Abrams. “A rose is a rose is a rose.” –Gertrude Stein, 1913 From the verbal

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