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Ernest Hemingway

6 Most Obscure Favorite Books Of Ernest Hemingway

Posted 05.17.2013 | Books

In 1935, Ernest Hemingway revealed some of his favorite books in Esquire magazine. We found it via Jason Kottke's site, and among the titles, which in...

Memories of Spain

John J. Healey | Posted 05.14.2013 | Books
John J. Healey

After decades of being frustrated by how ignored Spain has been in the American press, where Europe always meant France and Italy, suddenly it is in the news virtually every day for the wrong reasons.

The Great Gatsby From Book to Movie: My Top 20 Faithful Things, Part Three

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.14.2013 | Entertainment
Anne Margaret Daniel

Here's my final set of my favorite 20 movie moments that take something essential about the novel, and put them into cinematic terms.

Happy Father's Day!

Rob Hiaasen | Posted 05.13.2013 | Fifty
Rob Hiaasen

It's probably too late to return the Mother's Day card and gift, but it's not too late to plan your special Father's Day gift. Think material things. Think wonderfully expensive material things. Think boat.

Hemingway's Cuba Home Items Go To JFK Library

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.06.2013 | Books

WASHINGTON — While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 r...

Celebrating National Short Story Month

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.04.2013 | Books
Doug Bradley

We all remember our first time. Mine was in 10th grade AP English in 1963. I was almost about to swear off reading and AP English when I stumbled upon a particular short story, maybe one of the shorter stories ever written, that grabbed me and wouldn't let go.

PHOTOS: A Peek Inside A Literary Legend's Key West Estate

The Huffington Post | Brie Dyas | Posted 05.06.2013 | HuffPost Home

There's something in the garden that might raise your eyebrows.

What's as Compelling as The Great Gatsby in 3D? The Story of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the South of France

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.01.2013 | Books
Jesse Kornbluth

The budget was $105 million, and as the May 10 opening of Baz Lurhmann's 3D adaptation of The Great Gatsby approaches, it feels like another $105 million is being spent to promote it. Gatsby is everywhere -- but is this Gatsby?

Man Ray Portraits

David Galenson | Posted 04.25.2013 | Arts
David Galenson

Growing up in Brooklyn as the son of a Russian immigrant factory worker, Emmanuel Radnitzky stole tubes of paint from a local art supply store, but ha...

Hotels Where The Stars Live

trivago | Posted 04.19.2013 | Travel
trivago

A stay in any of these historical hotels is a fantasy in itself, but living in one -- surely a luxury reserved for the VIPs of the world. The hotel se...

A Brief History of Western 'Jihadists'

Khaled Diab | Posted 04.16.2013 | World
Khaled Diab

What the hype over European Muslims fighting in Syria overlooks is that Westerners have been volunteering for what you can call "jihad" in foreign lands for centuries.

'A Farewell To Edit': A Final Edit By Chris C. Anderson Of Ernest Hemingway's Intro To 'A Farewell To Arms' Because Why Not

Chris C. Anderson | Posted 04.02.2013 | Books
Chris C. Anderson

It was an exciting time, one which we'll look back on with fondness and admiration for the men and women who fought the battles and the wars and slogged through the halls, who; responded to emails as they walked, alternately winning Pulitzers and reporting on the latest wardrobe malfunction.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Practical Joker

R. Clifton Spargo | Posted 04.01.2013 | Books
R. Clifton Spargo

There are many, many ways to play the fool, and Scott and Zelda tried more than a few of them. In the early 1920s life was all fun and games for the world's best known flapper and her writer husband -- and being famous, it often seemed, was nothing more than a lark.

Silence of the Poets: Writers and Antidepressants

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 03.28.2013 | Books
Andrew Shaffer

It's an exercise in futility to try to hypothesize what effect antidepressants would have had on long-gone writers like Poe and Baudelaire. Whether you function or not is a more pertinent question than whether or not antidepressants or substance abuse "silences the soul."

Wanted: Writer To Work In Hemingway's Attic

Posted 03.20.2013 | Chicago

Writers of the Internet, do you ever find yourself daydreaming of setting it all aside and living like legendary author and noted alcoholic Ernest Hem...

Philip Roth: Unmasked

Francis Levy | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Francis Levy

The film is more about Roth's work than his personal life, though Roth does describe his first marriage as being "lurid" and "derailing" him.

11 New Spirits For Drinking Your Way Through The Drama

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.05.2013 | Taste
Tony Sachs

Most of us only know for sure that waiting on security lines at airports is going to be even more unbearable than usual, and that alone is enough to drive one to drink.

Inspiration in Key West

Sheila Blanchette | Posted 05.01.2013 | Books
Sheila Blanchette

A writer's life is enticing. Besides his home in Key West, Hemingway also lived in Idaho, Paris and Cuba. He traveled the world and hung out with other famous writers and artists. He had his very own style of writing and believed less was more.

Hemingway's Cat Fence Up For Auction!

The Huffington Post | Joey Francilus | Posted 02.04.2013 | Miami

Own a piece of history with this one-of-a-kind wrought iron gate from the Ernest Hemingway estate in Key West. The fencing company who replaced the...

9 Ways To Live Like Hemingway

Marty Beckerman | Posted 02.06.2013 | Books
Marty Beckerman

Since nobody has the attention span anymore (thanks, Twitter) required to slog through an epic tome about the Spanish Civil War, or even a breezy novella about a geriatric fisherman, Marty Beckerman has collected Hemingway's manliest wisdom.

On the Writer

Adrian Louis Chandler | Posted 01.27.2013 | Arts
Adrian Louis Chandler

Whether in journalism or fantasy, the writer finds the words that preexist and organize them into the correct marriage of vocabulary arrangement. The words are all there, I just have to put them in the right order.

PHOTOS: Hemingway's Favorite Cocktail Recipes

Philip Greene | Posted 01.14.2013 | Books
Philip Greene

TO HAVE AND HAVE ANOTHER is a cocktail lover's guide to the life and works of Ernest Hemingway.

Cities and Darkness: Sandy According to Hemingway

Adam Hanft | Posted 01.04.2013 | Comedy
Adam Hanft

It was soon after we decided never to go north again that the lights went on but we weren't sure we liked it that bright way because in the darkness we knew we were alive.

A Nice Place on the Other Side of the Street

Mark Chiusano | Posted 12.11.2012 | Books
Mark Chiusano

Recently, travelling through Spain, my girlfriend and I ended up in Barcelona. This was at the beginning of another wave of anti-austerity protests.

Rare Hemingway Works Go To University Library

AP | By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER | Posted 09.25.2012 | Books

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A love of Ernest Hemingway's writing and the thrill of tracking down his many works led a Mississippi physician to amass a huge lite...