The writer Gertrude Stein may be remembered more for her place in artistic and literary history than for her work itself. Though her quotes “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” and her one-line description of Oakland, California (“There is no there there”) are widely recognized, the number of people who know her as a member of the circle of expatriate artists living in 1920s Paris that included the likes of Picasso and Hemingway certainly must outnumber those who have actually read her work. Further, if you don’t count her most popular and accessible work The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, the number of her readers will be even lower.