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!
Hemingway’s Letters: From Childhood to Paris
Sunday, December 11, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Join us for a discussion of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922 with Sandy Spanier, the book’s editor, and novelist Ward Just. Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, will moderate, and the actor, Corey Stoll, who played Hemingway in Woody Allen’s recent Midnight in Paris, will read selections.
A free screening of Midnight in Paris will be shown following the forum. Running time is 94 minutes.
I recently received a copy today of the book, In the Company of Writers: A Life in Publishing (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990, 193 pages) which chronicles the history of Scribner’s Sons that was of course Ernest Hemingway’s publisher with Max Perkins for the majority of his work. The book is based on the oral history by Joel Gardner and written by Charles Scribner, Jr. himself. Hemingway is mentioned throughout the book but my focus will be on the fourth chapter entitled My Life with Hemingway (pp 63-87).
11/25/11 – As expected this was indeed a great chapter to read. I was curious what Charles Scribner’s perspective would be on certin issues especially publishing Hemingway’s work posthumously.
“Hemingway left strict instructions that his letters not be published. But, with Mary’s approval, I published them – and I think I did the right thing. To begin with, he had kidded my father about publishing his letters, so he thought of such a thing. Second, I believe his letters show a side of him that nothing else in his work does, and it is a very nice side. I considered that I was justified.” (p. 85)
“Looking back, I am bound to say that working with Hemingway was rather like being strapped to an electric chair. All the electrodes were always in place, and it would need just the flicking of a switch to ruin me. I might do something quite innocently that would be taken amiss and I would be in outer darkness forever. It was hard. It required constant diplomacy to keep everything smooth. I don’t think it made me cowardly, but it made me nervous.” (p. 87)
The New York Times had a review (read here) by Author Arthur Phillips recently on some of the latest work to come out on Hemingway this past year.
Ernest Hemingway: Critiques of Four Major Novels edited by Carlos Baker (Charles Scribner & Sons, 199 pages, 1962) recently found it’s way into my Hemingway collection. This particular work by Baker is part of the Scribner Research Anthology series.
The books contents includes six parts:
Cover art Notre Dame de Paris 2 by Albert Lebourg (1849-1928).
Author H.R. Stoneback’s much anticipated book, Hemingway’s Paris: Our Paris? (New Street Communications, LLC, 2010) has arrived. Stoneback’s work was originally written back in the 1980′s and published as a chapbook in 1990.
H.R. Stoneback is one of the leading scholars of Ernest Hemingway and his previous work on Hemingway includes Reading Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” (Kent State University Press, 2007). Stoneback is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Hemingway Society.
“This is a good town. Why don’t you start living your life in Paris?” - Hemingway character, Jake Barnes from The Sun Sun Also Rises.
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” - Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
I came across a review of the revised edition of A Moveable Feast. For full review by Andrew Rosenheim click here.
If your yearning for Paris, the following is a review of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (restored edition) by Leo Robson of the New Statesman.
A review of the new book Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan (224 pages, Wayne State University Press, $39.95) by Christopher Walton, a Free Press special writer can be seen here. The book itself was written By Michael Federspiel who is a Central Michigan University history professor. The book has rich content and of course many photos (more than 250) of Hemingway’s early years. He spent his first 22 summers there with his family. His experiences from these times have ended up as the backdrop in many of his short stories and even some of his novels. Federspiel states in the book “No, Ernest Hemingway never really did leave northern Michigan. Instead, he carried it with him and gifted it to the rest of the world.”
A second review, Kathy Longcore on the same book can be read here.
For a great review on Scott Donaldson’s book Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days (Columbia University Press, 2009 – 520 pages/$22.50) see the Oxonian Review.
