Staying on Alone
Toklas, Alice B. / Burns, Edward![Staying on Alone](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/335/3350994/CHSBZCOP033350994.jpg)
On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de Sévigné. Here are shrewd, witty observations on some of the most interesting artists, musicians, and writers of the twentieth century: Thornton Wilder, Carl Van Vechten, Edith Sitwell, Anita Loos, Cecil Beaton, Janet Flanner, Bennett Cerf, among others. There are stories about Picasso, Hemin...