I just got rid of HBO today actually (looking to read and write more this summer) and then realized that the new HBO movie about Hemingway and Gellhorn is actually on this coming Monday night at 8 PM. I guess I struck out there but did not miss the pitch with the new book, Hemingway’s ‘The Garden of Eden: Twenty-Five Years of Criticism, edited by two of the better known scholars, Suzanne Del Gizzo and Frederick Svoboda – it looks great and I just ordered it.
Sam Jordison from the Guardian brings us his well-thought out Hemingway reading list that I really enjoyed reading (which makes me want to try to create my own EH reading list – how about you?). In his recent article – here – Jordison mentions a few books I have not thought about reading and in turn would like to add to my Hemingway collection. He suggested reading Michael Reynold’s five part series (think I’m one short) as well The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, a few of F Scott Fitzgerald books and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier to name a few.
I came across a great article written by novelist, Amy Shearn, titled A Goofy State of Mind: My Grandmother’s Letters from Martha Gellhorn. Like most EH fans this immediately caught my attention. Having read Caroline Moorehead’s book on Gellhorn as well as the Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn allowed me to enjoy Amy’s article – found on the Millions blog – that much more! Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did – you can also find Amy, like I did on Twitter at @AmyShearn and thank you Amy for letting us all in.
Add another Ernest Hemingway letter to the mix that has not been previously published. The letter, written in 1926, was recently found by Jennifer Towes of the manuscripts section of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The letter shows a generous side of Hemingway who offers to go 50/50 on helping to publish writer Morley Callaghan’s novella. Both men had first met as reporters at the Star in 1923. Dr. Sandra Spanier of Penn State had confirmed that this particular letter had never been published or cited in any other Hemingway biographies.
Please see the new Hemingway photos added to the site. Click “Hemingway Photo” at top of blog. Thanks and enjoy!
I received my copy of Michael Reynold’s Hemingway: The 1930′s Through The Final Years this week. Mr. Reynold’s (1937-2000) was a Professor at North Carolina State University and, in my opinion, had put together some of the best work ever done on Hemingway. Some of his best known scholarly work included: The Young Hemingway and Hemingway: The Homecoming and one of my favories Hemingway: The Paris Years among others. Looking forward to another great read about Hemingway by Reynold’s.
Here is Mr. Reynold’s obituary that was seen in the New York Times back in 2000.
A nice article by Martine Powers appeared in our Boston Globe on Thursday March 29th titled Hemingway Letters offer glimpses of author’s soft side. The Hemingway Museum at the JFK Library recently acquired 15 new Ernest Hemingway Letters – sounds like another great reason to get back for a visit! Susan Wrynn, curator of the EH collection actually went to Italy to personally pick up the letters. One of the letters was written to Gianfranco Ivancich who of course is the brother of Adriana who EH had a crush on and was used in his work. Maybe we shall see some of these letter’s in one of the upcoming volumes of Letters by Sandra Spanier? See press release from JFK Library here.
There is a nice lecture on C-Span by former U.S. Naval War College Professor Nicholas Reynolds, PhD. He talks about Hemingway and his son Bumpy doubling as spies. To view the lecture visit the C-Span video library website.
William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, carried on a nuanced and complex literary rivalry. At times, each voiced a shared professional respect; at other times, each thought himself the superior craftsman and spoke disparagingly of the other.
Their relationship will be discussed by Joseph Fruscione, author of the recently released “Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry,” at the Library of Congress at noon on Friday, March 16, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Division and the Poetry and Literature Center, the lecture is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. Book sales and a book signing will follow the program.
In his book, Fruscione reveals the rivalry and contentious relationship between Faulkner and Hemingway and the impact the intersection of their careers had on the evolution of American Modernism. While these writers may have only met once, their writing became a debating platform and they pushed each other to excel and innovate, according to Fruscione. The rivalry was manifest textually through their fiction, nonfiction, letters, Nobel Prize addresses and spoken remarks.
Fruscione is an adjunct professor of English at Georgetown University and an adjunct assistant professor of first-year writing at George Washington University.
The Humanities and Social Sciences Division provides reference service and collection development in the Main, Local History and Genealogy, and Microform reading rooms at the Library of Congress. It regularly sponsors programs in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress fosters and enhances the public’s appreciation of literature. The center administers the endowed poetry chair, (the U.S. Poet Laureate), and coordinates an annual literary season of poetry, fiction and drama readings, performances, lectures and symposia, sponsored by the Library’s Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund and the Huntington Fund. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/poetry/.
This years Hemingway/Pen award goes to author of “Open City” Teju Cole, 36 who is currently at Bard College. Mr. Coles is also the author of “Every Day Is for the Thief.” See full story in NY Times here.
A new book has come out on our favorite writer Ernest Hemingway, this time by Marc Dudley and Kent State University Press (160 pages, 2012). I have not read Hemingway, Race and Art: Bloodlines and the Color Line as of yet but wanted to bring it to your attention in case you were not aware of it. I also saw that Woody Allen’s movie Midnight in Paris (still have not seen it) won an Oscar last night for Best Screenplay – of course Woody was once again a no show!
I am always searching for Ernest Hemingway photos that I have not yet seen. Here are a few more that I have recently found. If you know the story behind any of the photos – please let me know.
As I was researching poems by Ernest Hemingway I came across what I think is a good biography on Hemingway at the Poetry Foundation site that can be seen here. This great website has been part of my Blogroll (see lower right) for quite some time). While we are on the topic of poetry – notice the new EH poem on the right (upper) side of the home page.
Also, check out this great site on Hemingway from the University of Delaware, which again has been on my fav EH link list. This is part of the U. Del Library Special Collections and is really quite interesting and filled with copies of some of the original Hemingway work published in various periodicals. It includes some facts about his work that you may have not been aware of.
I have to admit that I have not yet seen Woody Allen’s – A Midnight in Paris yet but I am looking forward to the movie made for TV – Hemingway and Gellhorn due out in May 2012. The filming will start soon (Feb. 28). It looks like it will have a great cast with Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen in the starring roles. It will also co-star Connie Nielson – who I like in the BOSS – as the “blonde women.” I believe Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s third wife was the most interesting of all of Hemingway’s wives. For additional readings on Martha try: Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life by Caroline Moorehead as well as the Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn also by Moorehead.
