Last summer’s Midnight in Paris took as its subject a young writer given the tremendous opportunity to meet his literary idols–the writers of the expatriate clique, including Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway. It could as easily have been about any young writer or moviegoer as about Owen Wilson’s character, with Read More
Wednesday, September 7
Reever Madness
They’re making another Superman flick with some British gent—don’t they know that for screen magnetism as well as real-life heroism, the buck stopped with Christopher Reeve? The beloved screen icon, who became an advocate for the paralyzed after a horseback-riding accident, is remembered at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Read More
Ernest Hemingway was born 112 years ago today. To celebrate, we’ve been drinking grappa out of a calfskin flask, hunting gazelles, and contemplating the savage grace of war between men.
Others have taken to the Internet to show their affection for Papa. The Tumblr site for publisher W. W. Norton has a nice excerpt from Read More
On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway bid farewell to the world. We intend to honor him tomorrow with a “Hemingway breakfast” (two bottles of red wine and a steak) and by perusing internet memorials:
THE CLASSICS
Ernest Hemingway interviewed by George Plimpton [Paris Review]
“How Do You Like Me Now Gentleman?,” Hemingway profile Read More
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Marketing and Research Resources study of Kindle, iPad and Sony Reader owners—ahem, paid for by Sony—indicates that these electronic libraries are somehow convincing people to read more books. Of the 1,200 device-owning people surveyed, 40 percent said they are reading more now. It’s a bit of Read More
Literary agent Julie Barer is auctioning a novel today by the author Paula McLain written from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson.
Richardson, who was born to a wealthy St. Louis family in 1891, lived with Hemingway in Paris and supported him financially from 1921 until their divorce five years Read More
A bonus from Blake Bailey’s Cheever (Knopf, $35): When William Faulkner won the Nobel prize in 1949, Cheever amused himself by imagining what Hemingway would have to say about it:
“I think it’s fine that Bill Faulkner got the Nobel Prize. … The Nobel Prize is like that purse they give in Verona for Read More
“For a long time, Robert Jordan was the man I admired above almost all others in life and fiction,” John McCain wrote a few years ago about the doomed guerrilla hero of his favorite novel, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. Last month, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Barack Obama, when asked to Read More
Gillian Anderson is all about Martha Gellhorn, a war reporter who covered conflicts for 60 years. As a correspondent for Collier’s Weekly, she reported on the Spanish Civil War, along with her future husband, Ernest Hemingway. Ms. Anderson read Caroline Moorehead’s 2004 biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and was hooked. "Martha Gellhorn was one of Read More
THE SEVERAL LIVES OF JOSEPH CONRAD
By John Stape
Pantheon, 369 pages, $30
Asked by Ford Maddox Ford to contribute to a memorial supplement to the Transatlantic Review in honor of the recently deceased Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway groused about friends who disparaged Conrad; he complained that most of the people he Read More
