1. Gertrude Stein, “What are Master-Pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them,” in Writings 1932–1946, eds. Catharine R. Stimpson and Harriet Chessman (New York: Library of America, 1998), 360.
2. Bob Perelman, The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 154.
3. Gertrude Stein, “Narration, Lecture 3,” in Writings 1932–1946, eds. Catharine R. Stimpson and Harriet Chessman (New York: Library of America, 1998), 346.
4. Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in Writings, 1903–1932, eds. Catharine R. Stimpson and Harriet Chessman (New York: Library of America, 1998), 732. Subsequent references are given parenthetically within the text.
5. Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), 13.