Posts tagged “books”

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

An essay on The Old Man and the Sea by A. Chira.

Picturing Hemingway

Picturing Hemingway

This engaging book — Picturing Hemingway — is filled with more than 70 portraits of Hemingway and those around him, commemorating the life of one of America’s most important writers. The exceptional drawings, paintings, and abundant photographs displayed and generously captioned in this volume record nearly every stage of Hemingway’s life and career.

Remembering Ernest Hemingway

Remembering Ernest Hemingway

Remembering Ernest Hemingway is a book containing thirteen interviews with family and friends of the Nobel laureate, published by The Ketch & Yawl Press, Key West, Fla., to commemorate the centennial of Ernest Hemingway’s birth.

Reading

So I have a few books sitting on the desk now. That always happens after I visit my dad. I grabbed some great ones on this trip. For the hell of it, I compiled a list of everything I’m reading right now. (Click on the ‘more’ link to see!) I’m almost done with Just Six

Late Fee

Woman returns book missing from Boston library for 80 years Last week, a young woman went to the Boston Public Library to return an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” a book that has been missing from the library for at least 80 years. A

Eddie

Eddie

On eddies in the space-time continuum

Pleasure == Surprise

When it comes to having fun, the element of surprise may be more important than most people realise. A great link from Follow Me Here … And in completely unrelated news, I grabbed Dave Egger’s book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius at Target earlier today. I got a bit of a sunburn, too.

deadtrees

I’ve recently revised and reorganized my favorite books page. I also added links to the selections at amazon.com so you can grab your own copy.

Divorce Pending for Co-Author of Marriage book

Divorce Pending for Co-Author of Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work Well … just the headline should be funny enough to make you want to read the rest of the article. But! Good heavens! Did you read the ten tips? By the time I got to the third one I thought for sure it

Innocence v. Experience

This is a take-home test for AML 3124 from the fall of 1995. I might have not exactly addressed the questions as they were presented, but if I had wanted to be a journalist or a writer-for-hire, I never would have majored in English… Read away… Lemme know what ya think, too…

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.