Word: hemingways
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...underground stories about him circulate, and the incidents he provokes have become legend. Who has not heard about his poetry reading at the 92nd St. YMHA in New York, when officials rang down the curtain during a performance for the first time in twenty years? Or his nomination of Hemingway for President? Or his own candidacy for Mayor of New York? Or his belief that plastic causes cancer? Mailer, the cynics say, is "paceless, tasteless, and graceless...
...remarkable & I'd look him up right away." Fitzgerald's letter was filed away at Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan, along with the publishing house's correspondence with hundreds of other authors, including George Santayana, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling and that bright young man Hemingway. Last week Charles Scribner Jr. announced that his firm was donating the archives of its 121 years in the business to Princeton University. As a first installment, he gave Princeton President Robert Goheen the Fitzgerald file, including 468 letters and 1,248 other documents...
...book, From Here to Eternity (1951), at least projected a brutally candid image of the professional soldier between wars. Jones wrote it at white wrath out of his own experience in the peacetime army in Hawaii. The wrath is gone now; what remains is spillover Spillane combined with horrid Hemingway...
Their Left Bank apartment was the living room of the Lost Generation. Through it passed every star in the artistic firmament between the two World Wars-Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Picasso and Matisse, T. S. Eliot and Sherwood Anderson, Ford Madox Ford and Carl Van Vechten. Three generations of young writers came for guidance to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass...
...Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which is really about Gertrude and their famous circle as seen through Alice's eyes. Prankishly, the final page explains that Gertrude wrote the autobiography because Alice was too busy to do it herself. Was Alice then a mere alter ego to Stein? Hemingway implied that Toklas at times henpecked Stein, described her in The Moveable Feast as a "frightening" person who on one occasion said things to Stein that were "too bad to hear"; Alice cordially hated him in return. Actually, as Thornton Wilder tells it, "Alice was merely the dragon protecting...