February 2012
6 posts
The most interesting man in the world, dead at 74 →
For all its bravura, Mr. Fairfax’s seafaring almost pales beside his earlier ventures. Footloose and handsome, he was a flesh-and-blood character out of Graham Greene, with more than a dash of Hemingway and Ian Fleming shaken in.
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To...
“A.J. Liebling, the greatest of all boxing writers, once made the following plea...”
– No One Knows Exactly How Boxing Broke Ken Norton’s Brain, by Hamilton Nolan, at Deadspin
January 2012
5 posts
A TNR takedown of the first edition of Hemingway's... →
Because TNR is where you go for all your takedown needs.
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December 2011
8 posts
“Wallace hung himself in 2008; Hemingway shot himself in 1961. Neither of them...”
– Alexander Nazaryan, review of Hemingway’s Boat in the Daily News.
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Capa and Hemingway, by Cornell Capa, 1940
I had to bring this back from the archives.
“All of the sadness of the city came suddenly with the first cold rains of winter, and there were no more tops to the high white houses as you walked but only the wet blackness of the street and the closed doors of the small shops, the herb sellers, the stationary and newspaper shops, the midwife— second class—and the hotel where Verlaine had died where I had a room on the top floor where I...
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“It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I thought, it will seem just as...”
– The Sun Also Rises
November 2011
5 posts
“But of course, complete means complete, and there is much here that is...”
– Arthur Philips, Hemingway at Sea, the New York Times
Write Sober, Edit Buzzed, Re-write Sober
I still don’t know if Hemingway ever actually said “write drunk, edit sober.”
But yesterday, at a talk at the New York Public Library, Joan Didion (who mentioned her love of Hemingway several times), said she had the opposite process.
Cuban and American politicians have celebrated... →
Ernest Hemingway, Labor Journalist →
October 2011
13 posts
An article exists in which Nicholas Sparks both compares himself to Hemingway and says that Cormac McCarthy is “overwrought” and “horrible.”
Nicholas Sparks. The guy who wrote A Walk to Remember.
Stay humble, y’all.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
Words to live by. But I don’t know where they come from or if Hemingway said them. Quotes on the internet tend to be validated by repetition, not actual sourcing. Does anyone know?
On George Plimpton and Company in 50s Paris; Not...
“A few blocks away, in a small, dark apartment, another exile, James Baldwin, said ‘It didn’t take too long before I was really no longer a part of them. They were more interested in kicks and hashish cigarettes than I was. I had already done that in the Village when I was eighteen or seventeen. It was a little boring by then.
‘They also used to go to Montparnasse, where...
“The letters thus become not only a tender homage to this unknown Hemingway,...”
– Young Hemingway’s Letters: a rare glimpse of the author’s tender side, Maria Popova on The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922, “a fascinating new volume that peels away at a young Hemingway different, richer, more tender than the machismo-encrusted persona we’ve ...
“Thanks for sending the stats of Ezra’s rantings. He is obviously crazy.”
– Hemingway’s 1943 letter to Archibald MacLeish is up on (the fantastic site) Letter’s of Note
The Hemingway Project interviewed me...
about Hemingway and Fuck Yeah, Hemingway. You can read it here. Please comment if you do.
AB: There are so many images of Hemingway – as a writer, a sportsman, a traveler, a bully, an artist. His persona extends from kitsch to academic – how do you see Hemingway and what has influenced you to see him that way? What is real?
HM: I don’t buy into Hemingway’s personas. Personas are crafted....
September 2011
7 posts
“He had boxed almost all his life—Morley Callaghan, Mike Strater, and Harold Loeb...”
– The Finest Life You Ever Saw, James Salter, The New York Review of Books (via Nathan C. Martin)
Tour the MET with a Tipsy Ernest Hemingway.
“Hemingway the Museum-goer: Revisiting Lillian Ross’s famous 1950 New Yorker profile of Ernest Hemingway, Charles McGrath reveals a little-known fact about the world-famous writer: whenever Papa visited New York (he called it a ‘phony town’), he took refuge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, touring the galleries with a pocket flask to keep himself tight. Another...
theotherway asked: 'Write drunk, edit sober', I'm pretty sure it's from 'A Moveable Feast'. ;)
Deceptively simple.
INTERVIEWER
Since you write about yourself, interviewers tend to ask about your personal life; I want to ask you about writing and books. In the past you’ve written pieces on V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Norman Mailer, and Ernest Hemingway—titanic, controversial iconoclasts whom you tend to defend. Were these the writers you grew up with and wanted to emulate?
DIDION
Hemingway was really...
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Dominic Umile: Ernest Hemingway and Journalism →
dominicumile:
In his book about Ernest Hemingway’s early years as a reporter, Charles Fenton wrote that the author grew to value newspaper writing for its “opportunity to write constantly, for publication, in a medium which required narrative that was interesting and forceful.” I’ve long been familiar…
August 2011
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“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can...”
– Ernest Hemingway — Paris Review (via hamez)
Financial security. Well, I’m screwed.
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“Having at this point appeared in no less than three Hemingway adaptations (The...”
– From Anne Helen’s irreverent and highly entertaining read, ‘Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Ava Gardner, the Second-Look Girl’ (via deborahliz)
"Then he was dead." 50 Endings: Hemingway
”’Wops,’ said Boyle, ‘I can tell wops a mile off.’”
“’You’re too damned smart,’ Dr. Wilcox said.”
“Zurito stood awkwardly, watching.”
“I am not really a good bull fighter.”
— 50 Hemingway endings at HTMLGiant. (Via Nathan C. Martin)
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