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Posts tagged “Hemingway”

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The Hemingway Hamburger January 14th, 2014 @ 7:32 am PST

Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe

Hemingway with Underwood typewriter

On Literature December 15th, 2013 @ 6:12 am PST

“Fuck literature.” Ernest Hemingway, 1924, in a letter to Ezra Pound

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Eating Oysters October 28th, 2013 @ 7:23 am PDT

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I […]

Hemingway in Cuba

On Symbolism October 20th, 2013 @ 9:15 am PDT

“Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is […]

Hemingway at Home

Black Helicopters October 16th, 2013 @ 7:27 am PDT

Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

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Writing Isn’t Easy October 2nd, 2013 @ 11:01 pm PDT

For a few months this summer I was a Birchbox member. It’s a pretty cool service. For $20/mo you get a little box full of samples of hair products, shampoo, soap, and other toiletries, and then they also include something interesting like a pair of sunglasses or a wallet or an iPhone cable. The last […]

Hemingway with cat

Cats, Whiskey, and Papa October 1st, 2013 @ 12:39 am PDT

Ernest Hemingway Taught One of His Many, Many Cats to Drink Whiskey

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Baby Hemingway July 27th, 2013 @ 5:58 am PDT

The JFK Presidential Library and Museum has just released fully digitized copies of Ernest Hemingway’s mother’s scrapbooks, which chronicle the writer’s childhood and adolescent years in five volumes. The scrapbooks … juxtapose [her] observations and notes with photographs, drawings, and other ephemera … [She] recorded all of the bits of baby talk that she found […]

Notes from History

Notes from History May 7th, 2013 @ 4:21 am PDT

Talk about a literary adventure! A note from F. Scott Fitzgerald to an unknown stranger is found inscribed in a book. Almost a hundred years later, the wife of a professor — who was a friend of Fitzgerald’s daughter — notices that the last page of the book has been removed, and uses the ol’ […]

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Alternate Endings February 21st, 2013 @ 5:48 am PST

A Farewell to Arms has never been one of my favorite books, but it does contain what is possibly my favorite line ever written: “The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college.” I had no idea but am not surprised in the least to learn that Hemingway penned […]

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