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phoenix532 @ 11:28am: Center helps preserve Hemingway's original works
By Colin Steele
THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)


ANDOVER, Mass.— If not for the Northeast Document Conservation Center, the bell could be tolling for some of the country's literary treasures.
The center's work is part of a collaboration between American and Cuban nonprofit organizations to preserve the original works of author Ernest Hemingway. Rosalba Diaz, curator of the Hemingway Museum outside Havana, spent a month here this fall, learning conservation techniques in the office at 100 Brickstone Square to take back to Cuba.
"Hemingway was a beloved scholar and writer for both countries, and it's a nice way to bridge the cultural and political divide," said Sarah Doty, program coordinator for the Social Science Research Council.
The New York-based council began its Hemingway preservation efforts in 2002 and has worked with the center on other projects in the past. Walter Newman, the center's director of paper conservation, visited the Hemingway Museum in 2002 and trained Diaz in Andover.
Hemingway's documents have steadily deteriorated since he left the home in 1960, due mostly to Cuba's tropical climate.
"It's very hard on collections because of the high humidity and the insects and mold," Newman said.
Newman taught Diaz how to repair paper tears, remove mold and other stains, and mend broken dust jackets on books. They also discussed policies and concepts for proper museum caretaking.
Diaz was in Andover from Sept. 18 through Oct. 13. She and a colleague are taking on the "massive" task of preserving all of the museum's documents, Doty said. They will also digitize all the documents and transfer them to microfilm, copies of which will be stored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
The Hemingway Museum was the author's home for two decades, and "the Cuban government left the house as Hemingway left it," Doty said. It contains 2,000 letters and manuscripts, 3,000 photographs and 9,000 books, she said.
Diaz started with Hemingway's letters, including the original manuscript of "For Whom The Bell Tolls." The goal is to finish those by early 2007 before moving on to the photographs and books, Doty said.
The center has been in Andover for more than 30 years, and "we work on these kinds of important materials all the time," Newman said.
The Hemingway project is a rare example of cooperation between organizations in the United States and Cuba. The United States has had a trade embargo against Cuba since 1962, and Doty called it a "major breakthrough" that Diaz even received a visa to study in Andover.

Colin Steele writes for The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Mass.

phoenix532 @ 11:31am: GANDOLFINI SET TO STAR AS HEMINGWAY
THE SOPRANOS star JAMES GANDOLFINI will appear as legendary author ERNEST HEMINGWAY in a new movie about the author's stormy romance with World War II correspondent MARTHA GELLHORN. ROBIN WRIGHT PENN will play Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for his classic book FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Gandolfini will develop and produce the film for US cable network HBO, where the actor has signed a three-year production deal. He is also working on the documentary OCCUPATION IRAQ for the network about US soldiers fighting the Iraq war and their homecomings.

phoenix532 @ 1:36pm: Stars line up for Hemingway audio books
NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- William Hurt and Donald Sutherland are among the stars lined up to read the works of Ernest Hemingway for New York-based Simon & Schuster Audio.

Sutherland will narrate the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Old Man and the Sea," while Hurt will read "The Sun Also Rises," the publisher announced in a news release Thursday.

Campbell Scott has been tapped to read "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and John Slattery will narrate "A Farewell to Arms."

Tony Award-winner James Naughton will read "A Moveable Feast," Bruce Greenwood has been tapped for "Islands in the Stream" and Will Patton will narrate "To Have and Have Not."

The cast is still pending for "Across the River and into the Trees," "The Garden of Eden," "Green Hills of Africa" and "Death in the Afternoon."

The first three audio books -- featuring Sutherland, Scott and Slattery -- will be in stores this month.



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phoenix532 @ 12:26pm: Kensington Library Book Club
Kensington book club meets May 22
Kensington Library Book Club
Meets 4th Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

The next meeting will be held on Monday, May 22 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss
Ernest Hemingway`s "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

This masterpiece of time and place tells a profound and timeless story of
courage and commitment, love and loss, that takes place over a fleeting 72
hours. Drawing on Hemingway's own involvement in the Spanish Civil War,
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" reflects his passionate feelings about the
nature of war and the meaning of loyalty.

Listing of all Kensington Programs:
http://www.ccclib.org/programs/ken.html

phoenix532 @ 11:45am: Cuba restores Hemingway "Old Man and The Sea" boat
By Anthony Boadle

HAVANA (Reuters) - The boat Ernest Hemingway used to fish marlin in the Gulf Stream and track German submarines during World War Two will be restored at the writer's estate in Cuba, American conservation experts said on Thursday.

Hemingway bought the 40-foot boat he named Pilar from a Brooklyn shipyard in 1934 and used it for deep-sea fishing trips that inspired "The Old Man and The Sea," for which he won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

But tropical humidity and termites have damaged the Pilar, a two-engined Wheeler Playmate, and the canvas cover of the cabin top needs replacing, said Dana Hewson, a watercraft preservation specialist.

"She has been very well cared for and it is going to be a reasonably moderate restoration project," said Hewson, senior curator at Mystic Seaport, a shipping museum in Connecticut.

"This is a tremendously important boat. Hemingway spent so much of his life in Cuba and the boat played an integral role in his life while he was here," Hewson said at Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), the Spanish colonial villa on a hillside outside Havana where Hemingway lived from 1939 to 1960.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, America's foremost heritage organization, last year declared the estate, including the Pilar and a treasure trove of 9,000 books, manuscripts, letters and hunting trophies, one of its most endangered sites, the first foreign property to be listed.

Builders are busy repairing the house and replacing its leaky roof. All Hemingway's furniture and personal belongings --from his typewriter to the Martini and gin bottles he left behind on the drinks tray-- have been stored in containers.

Cuba is paying for the restoration because the Bush administration, citing long-standing trade sanctions against Cuban leader Fidel Castro's Communist government, did not allow the Boston-based Hemingway Preservation Foundation to send money raised in the United States, only expertise.

Humidity and temperature data loggers, and a rain gauge, brought to Havana last week by a team of conservationists, must be removed from Cuba by August 31 under a U.S. Treasury license.

"Unfortunately, the U.S. government has not allowed any financial backing. It considers that to be helping Fidel Castro," said Ada Rosa Alfonso, director of the Finca Vigia museum. "Our motives are not economic, we just want to preserve Hemingway's heritage," she said.

HUNTING U-BOATS

Modifications requested by Hemingway to the shipbuilders made the Pilar an ideal boat for sport fishing. They included a roller across the stern to haul in large game.

During 1942-43, the writer armed the boat for a different kind of hunting trip: patrolling the islands of the Gulf Stream for German U-boats that came to refuel off Cuba's north coast.

The weapons included .50 caliber machine guns, a handful of grenades and a bazooka, Alfonso said.

"It wasn't a military mission to destroy German submarines, just to detect their presence," she said.

Hemingway's anti-sub patrols have been dismissed as curious activity by a bored man of action who wanted to contribute to his country's war effort.

Hewson said such patrols were a real practice along the U.S. East Coast where many American yachts went into government service patrolling for U-boats. But they usually had Navy or Coast Guard crews. Papa Hemingway prowled the seas by himself.

phoenix532 @ 8:06am: Hemingway classics hit audio edition
From The Northwest Herald

Hemingway classics hit audio edition


NEW YORK (AP) – Audio editions of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "A Farewell to Arms" and other full-length Ernest Hemingway classics, long available only to libraries, will soon be sold to the general public, publisher Simon & Schuster announced last week.

"The market for unabridged, full-length books only started taking off over the last few years. And we think Hemingway will be especially popular for audio downloads," said Chris Lynch, executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio.

Lynch said that the audio versions had been distributed by Books on Tape, a division of Random House, Inc., that sells primarily to schools and libraries.

Simon & Schuster, which releases the print editions, acquired the audio rights after they became available last year.

According to Mary Beth Roche, president of the Audio Publishers Association, most major authors have their books out in audio.

In a statement issued through Simon & Schuster, the author's son, Patrick Hemingway, said his "father would have been pleased to have so many of his finest works published in audiobook form.

"Reading Hemingway is to listen to him, to 'hear' the dialogue. The spoken word versions will certainly add another dimension to his writing and will entice new audiences to his work," Patrick Hemingway said.

In May, audio versions of "A Farewell to Arms," "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea" will be released, with the readers still to be announced. Other audio books to come out include "The Sun Also Rises," "A Moveable Feast" and "Death in the Afternoon."

Hemingway's short stories, read by actor Stacy Keach, already are sold through Simon & Schuster Audio.

imfinallyfound @ 11:28pm: Old Man and The Sea
For all you Hemingway lovers, this is the one book that I have not yet read and I had it in my book case for years but i dunno for some reason i never picked it up until today. And i just couldnt help but fall in love with the old man. And to top it off, he is a Yankees fan...

phoenix532 @ 12:52am: One Year and Seven Weeks to Go
Hemingway Letters to Dietrich Donated to Library

By Greg Frost

BOSTON (Reuters) - Thirty letters written by author Ernest Hemingway to screen siren Marlene Dietrich along with several early drafts of his stories and poems have been donated to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the library announced on Monday.

Deborah Leff, director of the library in Boston, called the donation a "rich addition" to the center, which is already home to 95 percent of Hemingway's manuscripts and correspondence. Library staff acknowledged that they only learned of the documents' existence within the past few years.

"Here are two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century -- one of the great American writers and one of the great actresses, both of them larger than life -- and shared among them are these extraordinary, intimate and loving letters," Leff told Reuters.

The documents, which were given to the library by Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, will be made public in 2007. Riva has kept them since her mother died in Paris in 1992.

Peter Riva, Maria's son, has seen the letters and said they depict a relationship of sincere "camaraderie" that was more than friendship but fell short of an all-out physical romance.

"You read these letters and you come to understand that theirs was a relationship of firm, fast friendship based on an experience of the world they lived in," he said. "They could bare their souls in a way that was unusual then, and probably still is today."

Riva, a literary agent based in New York state, said his grandmother and the Nobel and Pulitzer prizewinning author never escalated their relationship to the height of physical love, but they nonetheless felt great passion for one another.

"Marlene was this firm, independent, capable human being who just happened to be a beautiful woman, (and) Hemingway brought to the table the ability to celebrate and understand women in a way that she thought was the right way," he said. "He knew how women ticked."

'BREAKS YOUR HEART'

Hemingway once said about Dietrich: "If she had nothing more than her voice she could break your heart with it. But she has that beautiful body and the timeless loveliness of her face. It makes no difference how she breaks your heart if she is there to mend it."

Born in 1901, Dietrich became the quintessential blonde bombshell. She struggled through the roaring 1920s in local theaters as a singer and small-time actress before her breakthrough as a vamp in the movie "The Blue Angel" in 1930.

Hemingway became the second most-translated author in English after Agatha Christie with masterpieces such as "The Sun Also Rises," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "A Farewell to Arms," and "The Old Man and the Sea," which led to a Nobel Prize in the early 1950s.

Like his characters who exhibited grace under fire, he gained a reputation for drinking and womanizing (he married four times) and became a larger-than-life expatriate on the frontlines of battlefields and bullfighting rings. He committed suicide at age 61.

The donation comprises 30 letters, cards and other documents that both Hemingway and his wife, Mary, wrote to Dietrich from 1949 to 1959. They were mailed from Idaho, Kenya, Italy, and other disparate postmarks.

Apart from the correspondence, the donation also includes drafts of three Hemingway stories -- "Across the River and Into the Trees," "The Good Lion," and "The Story of the Faithful Bull" -- and two Hemingway poems, "First Poem to Mary in London" and "Poem to Mary."

Peter Riva said it is believed that the other half of the correspondence -- Dietrich's letters to Hemingway -- may still be in Cuba, where the author lived for several years. An effort is under way to bring more of the author's property back to the United States from the communist Caribbean island nation.

phoenix532 @ 10:51am: Remembering the Young Hemingway
October 28, 2005
Remembering the young Hemingway
Conference has documentary, tours, IMAX
By MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS
Record-Eagle staff writer

PETOSKEY - More than 80 years have passed since Ernest Hemingway's first collection, "Three Stories and Ten Poems," was released in 1923.
But the young Hemingway, who often wrote about the woods, fields and creeks around Walloon Lake, is still celebrated here by the Michigan Hemingway Society and its annual conference.
The 2005 event begins today and features Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker DeWitt Sage. He will present his new film, "Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea," at 7:30 p.m. at the Crooked Tree Arts Center's Ross Stoakes Theatre.
The film, a portrait of Hemingway through his art, combines readings from the author's fiction, his letters and his memoir, "A Moveable Feast," with commentary from family, friends and academics. It is illustrated by evocative shots of the writer's life and fiction, including scenes from around Walloon Lake where the Hemingway family had a cottage called Windemere.
"We were extremely lucky in that we hit high autumn when we were there," said Sage, who came to the area three times over a period of 2½ years to research and shoot the film.
Ken Marek of the Michigan Hemingway Society compares the documentary's stunning cinematography - with scenes of the wind rustling late summer grasses and a brilliant blue sky with high cirrus clouds - to that of movies like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
"There are scenes in DeWitt's films that remind me of those films in that the scenes are so beautiful your jaws drop," Marek said.
The documentary cost about $750,000 to make and was funded by the French government and a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Produced for Thirteen/WNET's "American Masters" series, it premiered nationally on PBS in September and aired locally on WCMU.
The film follows Hemingway's trail from Oak Park, Ill. to Petoskey, Paris, Milan, Madrid and Havana. That trail ended in Ketchum, Idaho, where the alcoholic, depressed and oft-married author took his life in 1961.
"The enormous time was not in the filming but in the conceptualization of the film and the editing," said Sage, who was offered unprecedented access to archival records and to family members and friends including Patrick Hemingway, the author's only surviving son. The filmmaker also interviewed Jim Sanford of Walloon Lake, one of Hemingway's nephews.
In a career spanning over 30 years, Sage has won an Academy Award for his 1974 documentary "Princeton: A Search for Answers;" three major film festival awards for the 1988 feature "Distant Harmony," a portrait of opera star Luciano Pavarotti's trip to China; and widespread acclaim for his 1995 documentary "A Place for Madness," an examination of severe mental illness and the law.
In 2001 he won his second Peabody Award for "Winter Dreams," his documentary chronicling the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Tickets for tonight's film are $10 at the door. After the screening, Sage will comment on its making and answer questions from the audience.
The conference, which runs through Sunday, also features a screening of the IMAX animated version of "The Old Man and the Sea," a silent auction of Hemingway-related memorabilia, roundtable discussions and tours of area Hemingway haunts.
Some 85 Hemingway devotees from as far away as California, Washington state, Kansas and Maryland are expected to attend, said Nancy Nicholson, membership chairwoman.
For more information, call 347-0117 or visit www.northquest.com/hemingway.

phoenix532 @ 9:11pm: Anthony Hopkins to Star in Hemingway Film
Anthony Hopkins will star as Ernest Hemingway in "Papa," to be directed by Roger Donaldson.

Donaldson said the film will be based on Hemingway's encounter with Denne Bart Petitclerc, America's youngest war correspondent in the Korean War, who was inspired by how Hemingway reported on the Spanish Civil War.

"Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he goes there," Donaldson told the Dominion Post newspaper in Tuesday's editions. "It's a thriller, it's a love story, it's Hemingway as he falls apart and is suicidal. This guy was a witness to it all."

"It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is ... Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can," Donaldson said.

In researching the movie, Donaldson said he visited Hemingway's Havana home and met Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

"Papa" will be an independent film, Donaldson said. He is still working to secure financing.

The director was in Wellington to promote "The World's Fastest Indian," also starring Hopkins, which will be in New Zealand theaters next week.

phoenix532 @ 3:52am: What Are Your Thoughts?
I just reread The Sun Also Rises for perhaps the 23rd time. Its message, at least the one I have always received from it, hit me stronger then before. I had traveled a rough path for much of this year and it helped to put things in perspective for me.

At the beginning Hemingway includes an epigraph consisting of two quotations. The first is from Gertrude Stein,her quote describes the generation that came of age during World War I as a "lost generation." The horror of world war had caused this group of young people to lose faith in traditional values, leaving them hopelessly adrift. The second is a quote from the Bible, the book of Ecclesiastes, which states that the world endures and the sun continues to rise, which suggests that time and nature will eventually provide a new generation and new hope. I have always felt this novel shows that both themes, hopelessness and hopefulness or rather the rebirth of hope travel hand in hand just as sunset and sunrise.

What are your thoughts?

lasuenadora @ 1:47pm: Martha Gellhorn
I'm currently reading Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn. Have any of you read it?

For those who don't know, she was Hemingway's fiery 3rd wife, and quite an author herself! This memoir I'm reading is about her "honeymoon" to China with him. One of the most dynamic, real portraits of Hemingway you can find. Also very funny! Their trip was disastrous (mostly to her) and he is simply referred to as U.C. (Unwilling Companion).

If you're interested in his life and like reading biographies, then this is a nice change from the ordinary chronological accounts. Read it! :-)

phoenix532 @ 2:57pm: More Info
KENT, Ohio Feb 6, 2005 — The macho hunter image of Ernest Hemingway is replaced by a picture of the author as a confident and happy man in one of his last manuscripts, to be published this fall.

Written while Hemingway was on safari in Kenya from late 1953 to early 1954, "Under Kilimanjaro" is lighter and more comedic than the author's other work, said coeditor Robert Lewis, a Hemingway scholar at the University of North Dakota.

"Without this book, I think people would tend to stereotype Hemingway as they have in the past, as the macho man, the man of blood sports. … That man is completely absent from this book," Lewis said. "It's the work of a man, an author, who is confident in his person, happy in himself."


The unabridged novel, published by Kent State University Press, is expected to be in bookstores in September. Excerpts have appeared in Sports Illustrated, and a version heavily edited by Hemingway's son was published under the title "True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir."

phoenix532 @ 2:52pm: Under Kilimanjaro
Hemingway's words returned in new book
Updated: Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 - 4:20 PM

KENT, Ohio, Feb 08, 2005 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The unabridged version of one of Ernest Hemingway's last manuscripts on a Kenyan safari will be released in September with the title, "Under Kilimanjaro."


The book published by Kent State University Press tops 500 pages compared with the 319-page, "True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir," which Hemingway's son, Patrick, edited and released in 1999. The son's version, released to generally poor reviews, spent four weeks atop the New York Times best-seller list, the Times said.


Other works published since Hemingway's death in 1961 include "Garden of Eden," "The Dangerous Summer" and "True at First Light."


Copyright 2005 by United Press International.

phoenix532 @ 9:37am: Ernest Hemingway was best known for two things,: writing and drinking.
He had a favorite drink at Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy, that he dubbed the Montgomery. He claimed that Montgomery was the British general who would only engage the enemy when he had 15 British soldiers to their one. That was the ratio of gin to vermouth Hemingway preferred in his martini, and Harry's still serves it today.

phoenix532 @ 9:56pm: Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Below is the full text of Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, which was read for him by John C. Cabot, the then US Ambassador to Sweden.


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Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen:

Having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric, I wish to thank the administrators of the generosity of Alfred Nobel for this prize.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

It would be impossible for me to ask the Ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are in his heart. Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Again I thank you.


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phoenix532 @ 9:53am: Princeton Library Displays The Lost Generation
LIBRARY
Firestone displays Man Ray photographs

Arthur Dudney
Princetonian Arts Writer

"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein once told Ernest Hemingway, and the label stuck. She was referring to the American writers, artists and musicians who left the stodgy Puritanism of Prohibition and moved house to Paris. They adopted the French language and culture, but banded together as an expatriate community in a little bookshop called Shakespeare & Company.

A trio of curators has assembled a remarkably complete but manageable exhibit about that group using materials from Princeton's own Sylvia Beach Collection in Firestone. On the walls hang photographs of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis and William Carlos Williams. Most of them were taken by Man Ray, a photographic pioneer, whose portraits "have a way of getting into the consciousness of the sitter, which is the mark of a really great photographer," according to John L. Logan, one of the curators. Particularly striking is the one photo of Lewis, which Logan said subtly portrays "a dandified Midwesterner commenting on the non-dandified Midwest."

At the center of this circle is the ubiquitous Sylvia Beach, proprietress of Shakespeare & Company. Herself a photographer, she covered every square inch of wall space in her shop with portraits taken by and of her friends. Beginning life as the daughter of a Presbyterian minister in Princeton, she moved to Paris and met a much hipper and morally loose crowd. Adrienne Monnier, another bookstore owner, was her "companion," which is probably transparent code for lesbian lover.

The oil paintings in the exhibit of Beach and Monnier were done by Paul-Émile Bécat, who was widely known as a pornographer. Many of the other dramatis personae need no comment. Hemingway, returning bloodied after the liberation of France, remarked to Beach that he was now ready to "liberate the contents of the wine cellar at the Ritz."

Shakespeare & Company's contribution to both literature and photography is perhaps unique in the 20th century. It was here that the first edition of the touchstone modern novel, Joyce's "Ulysses," was published because of Beach's perseverance. Though the popularity of Man Ray has been eclipsed by later photographers, his style was an inspiration for all of his successors. Not only were his portraits exceptionally perceptive, but he was a tireless innovator. The large self-portrait at the entrance to the gallery shows an entirely un-photogenic space, the photographer's living room with narrow stairs leading up to his studio. He stands at the bottom of the steps, out of focus in an otherwise sharply focused shot. According to Logan, Man Ray was out of focus because he was moving and his intent was "showing how you can push technology," namely the technology of the still camera, which by definition is unable to show movement. His so-called Rayographs and pochoir works, a technically difficult kind of colored stencil art, show a surrealist sensibility that would be unsurpassed for their otherworldliness until the postmodern period.

The exhibit runs in the main exhibit gallery in Firestone until April 17.

phoenix532 @ 9:53pm: Welcome To Our New Member
Welcome To Our New Member lasuenadora who has already posted a wonderful entry about Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

lasuenadora @ 3:43pm: My favorite short story...
Hi! I'm new to the community. Obviously I'm a huge Hemingway fan (why else would I be here?) and have read almost everything he's ever written as well as biographies about him. In college, I took an amazing course solely about him and have also visited his home in Key West, Florida. I hope to make it to Cuba some day as well! Some might say I'm alittle obsessed, but there's nothing wrong with a lil' artistic appreciation, right? ;-)
Anyways, I just wanted to share my favore short story of his, and see if/how other people feel about this particular work...

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I'm not saying this is his best shory story, but it's my favorite because of the way I can identify with it. The excerpts that I put in bold are words that particularly touch me. When I first read this story, I thought "ahh, thank god! A kindred spirit!". Like the old man, I despair over nothing. The idea of nothing. Nothingess inside me. Nothingness before me. And nothing that cheers me. Of course it's all ridiculous, and usually those thoughts quickly pass, but I still have them. And apparently Hemingway did as well.

phoenix532 @ 4:52pm: As Requested...Bird of Night
Cover my eyes with your pinions
Dark bird of night
Spread your black wings like a turkey strutting
Drag your strong wings like a cock goose drumming
Scratch the smooth flesh of my belly
With scaly claws
Dip with your beak to my lips
But cover my eyes with your pinions.

phoenix532 @ 10:13pm: Welcome To Our New Member
Welcome To Our New member parkerbro9

phoenix532 @ 7:36am: Hemingway Play
Laurence Luckinbill Is Hemingway in Off-Bway Premiere, Dec. 3-19

By Kenneth Jones
03 Dec 2004
Hemingway, a play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actor Laurence Luckinbill, details the passions of the American fiction writer Ernest Hemingway, premiering Dec. 3 at Abingdon Theatre Company's second stage, the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre.

The play is directed by Benjamin Luckinbill. An Emmy and Tony Award nominee, Laurence Luckinbill's credits include The Boys in the Band, "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," The Shadow Box, and Abingdon's Teddy Tonight!

"Mr. Luckinbill seamlessly transforms into Ernest Hemingway as he grapples with his tortured past in the last few moments of his life," according to the Abingdon announcement.

Performances of Hemingway to Dec. 19 are Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30 PM. Matinees are Saturday at 2 PM and Sunday at 3 PM.

The Strelsin Theatre is at 312 W. 36th St. Tickets are $19 and can be purchased through SmartTix by calling (212) 868-4444 or online at http://www.SmarTix.com.

Visit http://www.abingdon-nyc.org.

truthlovefaith @ 6:26am: Indian Camp
I typically hate to read short stories. I prefer to get more info that a short story gives and I love to get involved in peoples lives more than it allows. HOwever, becasue I adore Hemingway I am giving hte Nick Adams stories a go. The first in the compilation is Indian Camp. The most important thing to me was how at the end of what was a night full of the realities of death in everyday situations, Nick ended the day feeling sure he could never die. What causes that reaction? It goes against the grain of feeling powerless against nature and the fact of death. Or is it a child's way of compensating for the fear of dying? In the not complete story The Three Shots he is fully aware of fear of hte unknown and that leads straight into the story of The Indian Camp. Is it because they were indians, whose who died that day? Or is it because when faced with a reality that scares them, younger people tend to assume it could never happent o them. The unknown is much scarier to children in my experience. Once they have seen something firsthand or had a good explanation for things, they tend to not be as frightened. The tone at the ending was definitely one of immortality. How sad that years later this fictional autobiography would end in suicide.

phoenix532 @ 12:24pm: Hemingway Trivia
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phoenix532 @ 3:40pm: Stone (call him Papa) and Tarantino (call him Scott)
The Pissing Contest
The screenplays of Stone (call him Papa) and Tarantino (call him Scott) hold their own as literature. So who's the bigger writer?

by Ron Rosenbaum | Dec 01 '97

OLIVER STONE versus Quentin Tarantino? Pitting writers against each other as if they were professional wrestling stars in a grudge match is not considered sophisticated literary practice, although it is true that the man who is regarded as perhaps the single most prodigiously learned litterateur in the language, George Steiner, once wrote an entire volume dedicated to putting two mad Russians into mano a mano competition. He called it Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, and there was blood on the floor before referee Steiner gave Foaming Fyodor the edge. ( read moreCollapse )