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.

For those of you who may have missed this – there is a section on Hemingway in the book titled: A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009). Read Review here.

Happy New Year to All!

I did not have a specific focus on this visit other than to get a tour by Hannah who was terrific and then to spend some time to peruse Hemingway’s work and letters. As for the letters (Collection #104), I spent time looking at incoming letters, postcards and newspapers from people like F. Scott Fitzgerald during the Dec 28, 1928 time period and through May 10, 1934. Following that, I spent time looking at letters from Ford Maddox Ford during the 1932-39 time period.

In addition to letters, I found a fantastic 353 page PhD dissertation by Sharon M. ZeBrack titled Ernest Hemingway: A Levinsonian Study of Mental Illness in Middle Adulthood - The CA School of Professional Psychology at Alvaredo (May 2001).

I would highly recommend a visit to this “hidden gem outside Boston – the museum has a knowledgeable staff and more than 90% of the Hemingway letters are housed here. I now even have my own researcher identification card (good for a year) that I will surely be using soon again. Happy Holidays!!

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.

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“Hemingway left strict instructions that his letters not be published.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)

Are Criticisms of Hemingway Unfair? (Panel Discussion) – Idaho Mountain Express

The Finest Life You Ever Saw by James Salter (New York Book Review)

Tender Buttons to Push by Robert Fulford, National Post (article on G. Stein)

The Man who Would be Papa by Robert Fulford, National Post