Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway
May.12.2013
Why is it that some books have you eagerly turning the pages after your bedtime and other books work like sleeping pills? Partly, it’s style. Why is William Faulkner revered by many English majors and Mad magazine by other people? Style. Is it everything?
“Style” is one of the elements of strong...
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Jan.31.2013
Just saw MIDNIGHT IN PARIS for the third time and couldn’t help marveling at the ingenuity of Woody Allen in keeping things simple while bringing us face-to-face with that whole magilla of authors and artist expatriates from the 1920s.
It’s midnight in the Paris of today. An aspiring author played...
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Jan.08.2013
It seems, no novel has been adapted to the screen more times than The Great Gatsby. The F. Scott Fitzgerald work has been filmed five times, and is again, in production. Notable versions include a 1926 silent film starring Warner Baxter and a very young William Powell; a 1949 Golden Age ...
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Jan.05.2013
** spoiler alert ** A luckless peasant fisherman who's returned from the sea empty handed every day for 84 days sets out, alone this time, to try his luck. He hauls in a monster marlin after a monumental 3-day struggle. But he's gone out too far and sharks allow him to return with little but a...
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Dec.28.2012
The Sun Also Rises survives as a classic as much because of Hemingway’s radical departure in writing style as for the content that made the book an immediate popular success in 1926. It roared into the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition, a generation reeling from the disillusionment of World War...
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Dec.05.2012
She is on the commuter rail reading the restored edition of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Her eyes are misting over like the city she's about to walk through. She can't let go the last line of the Forward, what Hemingway's son, Patrick, reveals to be his father's last professional...
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Dec.02.2012
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. —Robert Frost (1874–1963), U.S. poet.
Readers want truth. We read “how to” articles to learn things—not false things, but true things. We want to learn the truth about products and services—not some BS marketing hype. If we read something stupid or...
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Oct.13.2012
The excellence of THE GREAT GATSBY is hardly in contention, but I wanted more. The book was too short and didn't do justice for the Roaring Twenties. Some interesting background characters interacting with the core cast would have fleshed them out, given the book a larger social footprint and...
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Jun.25.2012
http://bookstove.com/book-talk/john-steinbeck-meets-ernest-hemingway-new-york-1944/
Here's a link to an interesting article about some important writers having dinner: Ernest Henmintway, John Steinbeck and John O'Hara (<i>Butterfield 8, Pal Joey, From the Terrace</i>.) The shabby...
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May.29.2012
What makes the Hemingway myth so durable? One reason among many, I suppose, is that he has come to represent the classical virtues of courage and self-sacrifice in our increasingly narcissistic society. Americans have always loved individuals who put their lives on the line for their convictions....
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