Word: hemingway
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...America today, William Langewiesche is one of the few heirs of the solitary wanderlust tradition. He is also the best, fashioning himself as a modern day Hemingway-cum-Indiana Jones. Perusing short biographies of him, I find they do not mention his stint at Stanford as an undergraduate, as if it were too common to emphasize...
Jean-Paul Sartre, the giant of postwar French letters, wrote in 1946 to thank the U.S. for Hemingway, Faulkner and other writers who were then influencing French fiction - but whom Americans were starting to take for granted. "We shall give back to you these techniques which you have lent us," he promised. "We shall return them digested, intellectualized, less effective, and less brutal - consciously adapted to French taste. Because of this incessant exchange, which makes nations rediscover in other nations what they have invented first and then rejected, perhaps you will rediscover in these new [French] books the eternal youth...
...illness at 42. The death of his wife, the lovely Deborah Kerr, seems to have been too much to bear. Barely three weeks after she died, writer Peter Viertel passed away, leaving behind his own legacy of books and screenplays. Best known for parlaying his relationships with writer Ernest Hemingway and director John Huston into novels like White Hunter, Black Heart, Viertel had a gift for exposing the dark nature that accompanied their genius. He made his mark in Hollywood by adapting famous novels like The Old Man and the Sea into popular films. Viertel...
...Homegoods, and a fruitless search for dorm decor. I was wading through a center aisle, knee-deep in a melange of pleather ottomans, outdoor garden ornaments, and kitschy teacups, when I spotted a worn book on a shelf ahead: “A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway. I lifted it from the shelf and turned it over, only to find the back blank, the dust jacket non-existent, and the cover glued to the “pages.” The book was a prop, a fake, meant solely for decoration. Enraged though...
...other black people--and all her life Julia had secretly believed it." The shock value of this revelation wears off early, leaving little to sustain the reader through the 500 or so pages that remain. The only takeaway seems to be--to paraphrase that famous exchange between Fitzgerald and Hemingway--that rich black people are different from rich white people. They're black...