Hemingway | Hemingway
Apr.28.2013
My wife has been indulging in a mini Hemingway trek. The Paris Wife kicked off her journey. She veered into Martha Gellhorn's biography. We then watched Hemingway & Gellhorn. Her next stage was A Moveable Feast.
She and I went walking in the 80 degree April sunshine...
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Feb.07.2013
Super Bowl has come and gone and the baseball season is about to beging with spring training. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_training I've heard of legendary players such as Babe Ruth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth , Hank Greenberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Jan.21.2013
My understanding of Hemingway, in a nutshell, was this: He lived in Paris for a while http://untappedcities.com/paris/2012/10/16/the-hemingway-map-of-paris/ as a part of the expatriate community called the Lost Generation. He wrote the well-known acclaimed novel The Old Man and...
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Dec.29.2012
Although Ernest Hemingway's early short stories are more florid, his style became almost journalistic, with writing that draws you into the current of the story before you realize it. He was the master of understatement; hyperbole was not Hem. His best prose is light and airy, almost dreamlike....
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Nov.21.2012
Stories, by Anton Chekhov - Part 1
(Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
image via stevenwbeattie.com
I’ve had this book of stories for a while, waiting, I suppose, for the time and mood to be right to not only read them but to study them. If you aren’t familiar with Chekhov, he...
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Nov.03.2012
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
image via beatrice.com
It’s sometimes hard to separate the life of an author from his/her works; this was certainly true of James Joyce, Norman Mailer, and Ernest Hemingway, and Heller’s tale here is more or less of that tradition. It’s a dystopian tale of survival...
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Oct.31.2012
Recently Copyblogger featured an article guaranteed to catch my eye: 8 Strange Rituals of Very Productive Writers. Seventy novels later I guess I think of myself as productive and possibly quite strange. So, of course, I had to find out what odd and amazing things my fellow...
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Sep.05.2012
“Does this make me look fat?”
How many times have you been cornered into answering this question? Or how many times have you asked this question? We are living in a weight-obsessed, body conscious society even though ironically two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese.
There...
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Aug.13.2012
The acrylic Coke bottles brazenly alternating with inverted Havana Club bottles couldn’t help but snag the attention of passersby. It was just one of the paintings, drawings, handicrafts, and other works of art being hawked by their creators at the weekly...
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Aug.10.2012
One of the bridges to cross in learning writing technique is that of objective points of view. Hemingway started this, as far as I know, merging his journalistic perspective on writing into fiction.
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If you haven't come across this, let me explain, ever so briefly:...
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