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....
