Ernest Hemingway

Why I Love The Paris Ritz

Kathleen Beckett | Posted 05.31.2012

Kathleen Beckett

There's still time to experience the Ritz before it's too late. The rue Cambon side with its Hemingway Bar may already have closed, but the Bar Vendome with its open-air Terrace, the Espadon restaurant, the Ritz-Escoffier cooking school, the Ritz Health Club pool, the rooms themselves, even Coco Chanel's suite, all remain open, until the last booking the night of July 31. On August 1, c'est fini.

Hemingway and Gellhorn Succeeds

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.31.2012

Carole Mallory

"I'm not dead you f**k," Martha Gellhorn says after hanging up on her editor. She has just told him,"I can't wait for you to grow a pair of balls." ...

Ernest Hemingway's Many Wives

Paula McLain | Posted 05.29.2012

Paula McLain

From the age of 21, and for 40 serially (semi-) monogamous years, Ernest Hemingway was virtually always married--plunging like a half-blinded bull from the disastrous end of one marriage (there were four altogether), to the heady, precipitous beginning of the next.

HBO's Awful 'Hemingway And Gellhorn' Is Worse Than 'Sharktopus'

Maureen Ryan | Posted 05.25.2012

Maureen Ryan

Why is hate-watching the only realistic option? Because loving or even liking this expensive misfire is simply not possible. Don't let the fancy names in the cast fool you: "Hemingway and Gellhorn" is a stupid, stupid movie.

Literary History In Key West

Pam Grout | Posted 05.25.2012

Pam Grout

If you're a writer, Key West is on your bucket list, likely in the number one spot.

Teachers as Crap Detectors and the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Alan Singer | Posted 05.23.2012

Alan Singer

Tom Roderick, executive director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, asked me to share my thoughts on teaching and crap detection. These are some of the things I learned from forty years as a teacher.

Close and Not-So-Close Encounters With Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2012

Dave Astor

Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors. These might involve seeing novelists at book signings, listening to them give a talk, or visiting homes/museums connected with famous authors of the past.

PHOTOS: Hemingway's Boyhood Oak Park Home Has A Buyer

Posted 05.16.2012

After only a few months on the market, legendary author and journalist Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home in Oak Park has a buyer. The Foundation of O...

Paris: Then And Now In Hemingway's City Of Light

Rebecca Dolan | Posted 05.15.2012

Rebecca Dolan

For Hemingway nerds and Francophiles alike, Paris is the place and A Moveable Feast the city guide.

My Trip to Cuba With Mary Hemingway!

Jay Weston | Posted 04.03.2012

Jay Weston

I had the adventure of going to Cuba with Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and also director Sidney Pollack and screenwriter Waldo Salt, to meet with Fidel Castro.

Amber Genuske

Newly Discovered Ernest Hemingway Letters Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Amber Genuske | Posted 03.28.2012

The name Gianfranco Ivancich may not ring a bell, but it belonged to one of Ernest Hemingway's dearest confidants during the last 10 years of his life...

One and Done (for Now) After Reading Certain Novelists

Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2012

Dave Astor

Of course, not reading more of an author is a no-brainer when you thoroughly dislike the first novel you try by him or her. But things get trickier when you have some positive feelings about a book, as I did with The Magnificent Ambersons.

C-SPAN Is America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012

Brent Budowsky

While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.

Mata Hari And 14 Other Dumb Spies

TruTV.com | Posted 05.05.2012

Spies are the ultimate conspiracy characters. They make their careers by stealing information and hiding the truth. The hallmark of a superb spy is an...

PHOTOS: Inside Hemingway's Boyhood Home

Posted 05.16.2012

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park has put the American author's childhood home up for sale. The suburban Chicago house was designed by ar...

Gauguin Exhibition Strikes Controversy

Posted 02.21.2012

Almost as legendary as Paul Gauguin's colorful depictions of Tahitian utopia is the colorful story of how he got there and what he did once in the tro...

Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22

David Finkle | Posted 03.06.2012

David Finkle

A large segment of the letters -- the first written when he was not quite 8 -- are juvenilia and could be the sentiments of any young whippersnapper. Yet there are occasional hints at what would become the acclaimed Hemingway mode of between-hard-covers expression.

WATCH: Inside Hemingway's Cuba Home

Posted 12.22.2011

'The Today Show' brought Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, Mariel, to Cuba to see her grandfather's home, now a popular tourist attraction. Hemingw...

Owner Of Famous Paris Bookstore Dies

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 02.13.2012

PARIS — George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-la...

Is A Newspaper Column Literature?

Errol Louis | Posted 02.13.2012

Errol Louis

It's only a matter of time before the newspaper column takes its rightful place as a recognized and respected form of literature, every bit as vital as its more celebrated cousins, the short story and the novel.

D.C. Watering Hole for Cuban Spies?

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ and JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 02.08.2012

WASHINGTON — Washington and Cuba have had an icy relationship for decades, but the Cold War foes now have a place to share something else: chill...

Cuban Officials' Invite-Only D.C. Bar Toasts 'Papa'

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ and JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 02.08.2012

WASHINGTON — Washington and Cuba have had an icy relationship for decades, but the Cold War foes now have a place to share something else: chill...

A Portrait of Charles Dickens as a Young Experimental Novelist

David Galenson | Posted 01.02.2012

David Galenson

Like many experimental artists, Dickens never arrived at a single definitive masterpiece that embodied the essence of his contribution: he was an experimental artist who loved process and motion, and who never ceased developing.

Hottest Authors: 12 We'd Love To Be Haunted By

Posted 12.31.2011

Ghosts and books go hand-in-hand. Be it William Shakespeare or Stephen King, writers have long been penning poltergeists. While most literary ghosts a...

I am an American P.O.T. (Prisoner of Technology)

Steve Honig | Posted 12.13.2011

Steve Honig

Life does not exist on the screen of a computer or a mobile device; it is a 360-degree experience happening all around me. It was time to lift my head up and smell the proverbial roses.