Posts tagged “books”

Technique is not enough to make a great writer.

For some reason reading this scathing review of To Have and Have Not, my favorite Hemingway novel, really made my day. You will never please everybody, and that’s okay.

I have never read The Catcher in the Rye — even though my mother and many, many teachers, professors, relatives, and friends have harangued me over it for about forty years — and I resolve to finish it in 2024.

Command and Control

Command and Control

Stories from the Cold War

Would You Eat Them in a Boat?

Would You Eat Them in a Boat?

Happy birthday, Theodor Geisel!

#FridayFive: Han Solo Books

#FridayFive: Han Solo Books

In which I suggest going beyond the mainstream

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What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.