As France recollects itself after this week’s terror attacks in Paris, many survivors and supporters are looking to art as a way to fight back. Ernest Hemingway’s memoir about his time in 1920s Paris has come to symbolize the city’s resilience.
In between comparing dicks and boozing it up around Paris, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald found time to write letters to each other (Hemingway’s letters were basically telegrams and Fitzgerald’s reeked of booze and cigarettes). Sometimes, they exchanged idle gossip, but other times, as is evident in a…
Ernest Hemingway strove to have courage. Not the courage of the boxer, though he did box, nor the courage of the football-player, though he did football. Ernest strove for the courage to please his mother, which is the noblest and bravest and most courageous of all the courages a Man can strive for. And Ernest…
How about a change of pace? Ahem. You make me sick, you lazy socialist kitty-cats! Just lounging around Ernest Hemingway's Key West museum compound, having six toes and getting fat on government-subsidized Meow Mix like hardworking Real Americans owe you a living. Not in my America! In my America it's time for you to…
In this Friday, July 20, 2012 photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Food Network personality Paula Deen, left, tugs at her husband Michael Groover's beard outside Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla. Groover participated in the "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest during Key West's Hemingway Days festival that…
It's like Vogue Italia mixed up Isabella Blow, Daphne Guinness, added a dash of Peggy Guggenheim, and popped on a Philip Treacy lobster hat. Oh, fashion! Always so whimsical. We've broken these looks down into easy at-home steps.
A new book of Marilyn Monroe's "notes to herself, letters, even poems" also includes a photo of her bookshelf. Apparently she liked Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Beckett — but no female writers.
In our modern peregrinations, few disappointments seem so regular as the inflight magazine, that haven of has-been columnists and destination-story junketry. But I would like to take a minute to appreciate the genre in all its promise.
This week, a dude wrote into the WaPo's Carolyn Hax with a relationship question. Her advice was great and all, but we were curious to see what famous dead people had to say!
New game! "What's more offensive?" The erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) or the "awww, but it seems like he really loved her!" forgiveness orgy for this pathological dumbshit dipshit shitfuck?
Paula McLain has written a new novel about Ernest Hemingway's long-suffering first wife, Hadley Richardson, and their Movable Feast expat days in Paris. [GalleyCat]
If it's ever seemed like Ernest Hemingway was suspiciously eager to prove his masculinity, this may provide a clue as to why: as a child, his mother dressed him in drag.
The inimitable Jane Smiley reviewed chick-lit doyenne Jennifer Weiner's new novel, Some Girls for the Philadelphia Inquirer over the weekend, and she wonders why the cover is so goddamn pink. "The pinkness of the novel implies to me that Weiner herself has given up seeking a wider audience, and so given up developing…
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