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.
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.
Sandra Spanier, one of the Editor’s of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907-1922 can be heard in a great interview online at the National Review. Check out Between the Covers with John Miller. This episode can also be found on iTunes.
Well I am two for two when it comes to forums at the JFK Library. Maybe it was because both talks had to do with Ernest Hemingway or that both authors were very dynamic speakers who new more about their topic than most. The previous talk was with Caroline Moorehead (author of Gellhorn and Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn) and the second was a talk (forum) that I actually attended tonight (Oct. 12, from 5:30 – 7:00 PM) titled Ernest Hemingway and the Sea. Paul Hendrickson, is the author of Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Hendrickson following the forum, that was moderated by Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition, who also did a great job with his probing questions. I have to say, and not because he signed my book, that Mr. Hendrickson was extremely interesting to listen to and I could have easily have spent the rest of the evening listening to his stories about Hemingway as I’m sure the rest of the packed audience could have. Now I need to do a little research to find his Washington Post story that he wrote about Hemingway’s three sons whom he all met back in 1987. I kept thinking how lucky his students (at UPenn) are to have a Ernest Hemingway scholar right at their finger tips.
The author signing copies of his book at the JFK Library Forum
Hemingway arrived at the house today. Two of the latest publications that is – Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, And Lost, 1934-1961 Knopf, 2011). This 531 page book looks like it will be a fantastic read. I had heard some earlier conversations on the Hemingway Society email list that mentioned it looked quite good. Author Paul Hendrickson is on the faculty at UPenn and his previous work Sons of Mississippi (2003) won him a National Book Critic Circle Award.
The much anticipated Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922 (Cambridge University Press 431 pages, 2011) looks like it will tie some things together for me concerning EH youth, WWI experiences, and his arrival in Paris. The book – volume 1 of 16 (? I believe) is edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert Trogdon. The introduction states that 85% of the letters have never been published before.
1. General Editor’s introduction Sandra Spanier; 2. Foreword Linda Patterson Miller; 3. Introduction Robert W. Trogdon; 4. Note on the text; 5. Acknowledgments; 6. Abbreviations and cue-titles; 7. Chronology; 8. The letters, 1907–1922; 9. Roster of correspondents; 10. Calendar of letters; Index.
I wanted to ask if anyone from the Boston area attended the recent interview with author Paula McLain at the Kennedy Library outside Boston? I was scheduled to attend and cancelled last minute – my daughter was being inducted into her high school NHS – I was obviously not going to miss that. If you attended please let me know – I’m trying to find a tape of that particular forum from March 23rd
I am currently finishing Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife – just about done and have really enjoyed it up to this point. Recently started Robert Paul Lamb’s heavily researched Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story. This will be a good read (NB – see earlier post on Lamb who I have had the pleasure of touching base via email). Have also been going through Caroline Moorehead’s Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn. If you’re looking for a quick and interesting read on Hemingway – check out H.R. Stoneback’s Hemingway’s Paris: Our Paris? from New Street Communications. Finally, excited to see some of the movies of EH that have been out not to mention the two that will be out in the near future – more on those down the road. Are you reading anything regarding Hemingway yourself?
Hemingway rowing in front of Hotel des Iles Borromees.
I had the pleasure of speaking to the head of New Street Communications, Ed Renehen, yesterday. His publishing company based in R.I. has recently published H.R. Stoneback’s book, Hemingway’s Paris: Our Paris? Ed had some great Hemingway stories which I truly enjoyed.
I also saw in Denis Brian’s, The True Gen, that there was a photo of Ernest Hemingway with Pier Vincenzo Bellia and his daughter, Bianca Bellia who claimed (60 years later) that Hemingway proposed to her when he was at Stresa on Lake Maggiore (1918). I’m trying to find out if that comment is true?…if anyone has any information please let me know.
There is now evidence that the proposed gun used in the death of Ernest Hemingway (July 2, 1961) may not have been a (Boss) double-barreled shot gun as originally suspected. A new book, Hemingway’s Guns, by Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, and Roger Sanger (Shooting Sportsman Books), attempts to make a case that Hemingway never owned a Boss, and that the gun was actually made by W. & C. Scott & Son. Full story.
“A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, THE PARIS WIFE captures a remarkable period of time—Paris in the twenties—and an extraordinary love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley…”
John Hemingway’s recent blog post has a nice piece on his Dad (Gregory), his grandfather Ernest Hemingway and their relationship with writer Norman Mailer who was the next great up and coming writer at the time compared to John’s grandfather who was at the top of his game.
Make sure you read some of John’s earlier postings on his blog (in 2008) about his grandfather which I found very insightful.
John is the author of Strange Tribe a family memoir (The Lyons Press, 2007) which in my opinion is a must read and is part of my collection on EH.
Here is a list that I found online at the NY Times regarding Norman Mailers top 10 novels – most of them read during his freshman year at Harvard (early 1940′s).
Ten Favorite American Novels:
“U.S.A.,” by John Dos Passos
“Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain
“Studs Lonigan,” by James T. Farrell
“Look Homeward, Angel,” by Thomas Wolfe
“The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck
“The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Sun Also Rises,” by Ernest Hemingway
“Appointment in Samarra,” by John O’Hara
“The Postman Always Rings Twice,” by James M. Cain
“Moby-Dick,” by Herman Melville
Picked up a used copy of Bloom’s Short Story Series (see below) for under $1 at Alibris (which has a 100 million used titles). This book sells for about $32 new on Amazon!
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Read the Scott Donaldson review of his latest book: Fitzgerald and Hemingway at Simply Charley
Scott Donaldson. Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). 520 pp.
Author Joyce Carol Oates talks about the last days of some of the greatest writers including Ernest Hemingway in her book titled Wild Nights (Harper Perennial, 2009 – 288 pages).
