On Indonesia's Islamic road Oct 17, 2009
" One of the more endearing aspects of the book is Dhume's struggle to become a writer in the truest sense of the word - nearly a lost pursuit in the Internet age, where blogs and Twitter feeds manufacture stars at the expense of literary substance. Dhume's living room sofa is cluttered not with newspapers but short stories from heavyweight literary journals like Ploughshares. He quit his job at the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far East Economic Review to pursue his book. He references D H... (Asia Times Online)
Story » Oct 17, 2009
"The upper peninsula of Michigan has the Two Hearted River the one we're currently paddling and the Little Two Hearted River, but no Big Two Hearted River, the one Ernest Hemingway wrote about in his stories," he said ... " Born in 1899 in Oak Park, Ill., 20th Century author Ernest Hemingway spent many of his formative years in Michigan fishing, hunting, hiking, and absorbing the feel of the wild country. These early influences were to play a large part in Hemingway's later writings, especially... (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Send us your sweetest tweets to mark writing day Oct 17, 2009
Ernest Hemingway wrote a story in just six words (For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn). You can write a haiku about your unsuccessful job search, an ode to the delicious blueberry muffins at the local coffee shop or a love note to the blonde you spotted in Publix's produce aisle. (Florida Today)
Get a behind-the-scenes tour of the JFK Library and Museum Oct 16, 2009
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the library and museum, you ll be allowed to visit rooms usually off-limits on the upper floors, which house artifacts including the painting that surrounded the White House pool during the Kennedy administration, a marlin caught by JFK on his honeymoon in 1953, and the Ernest Hemingway Collection of letters and manuscript materials. Oct. 17 from noon-4 p.m. on a first-come-first-served basis. (Boston Globe)
Renowned Marine Wildlife Artist and Conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey to be Inducted Into IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame Oct 15, 2009
"Joining the ranks of people like Ernest Hemingway and Zane Gray is a tremendous honor," said Harvey, who now resides in the Cayman Islands. Around the world, Harvey is known for his marine paintings, graphics, books and other artistry. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
* Bullfightings noble death? Oct 12, 2009
1932 Ernest Hemingway dedicates Death in the Afternoon to the Ordonez family of matadors. SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners Oct 7, 2009
Nobel Laureates you must know: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Pierre & Marie Curie, Max Planck and Albert Einstein. 7. (CNN)
The hybrid book, batteries and video included Oct 2, 2009
On Thursday, for instance, Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Ernest Hemingway and Stephen King, is working with a multimedia partner to introduce four new releases called "vooks," which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read -- and viewed -- online or on an iPhone or iPod Touch ... On Thursday, for instance, Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Ernest Hemingway and Stephen King, is working with a multimedia partner to introduce four new releases called "vooks," which... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
New on DVD: 'The Wizard of Oz' gets a high-tech makeover Oct 2, 2009
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway* * * 1/2, 1993, www. warnerarchive. (USA Today -- Life)
3 price points: Key West, Fla. Sep 26, 2009
Florida Keys News Bureau A tour train passes Sloppy Joe's Bar, once frequented by writer Ernest Hemingway. Florida Keys News Bureau The Harry S. Truman Little White House Museum in Key West. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
How would Einstein use e-mail? Sep 26, 2009
The researchers examined extensive letter correspondence records of 16 famous writers, performers, politicians and scientists, including Einstein, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Ernest Hemingway, and found that the 16 individuals sent letters randomly but in cycles. The same mathematical model the Northwestern team used in a previous study to explain e-mail behavior now has been shown to apply to the letter writers. (EurekAlert!)
First-time dad: Part-boy, part-seal, toddler shares his dad's love for the water Sep 22, 2009
Publishing's surest hitmaker announced Friday that her latest pick was Uwem Akpan's debut collection "Say You're One Of Them," practically guaranteeing hundreds of thousands of sales, numbers generally unthinkable for short stories beyond works by Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever and other giants of the art form. By Friday night, "Say You're One Of Them" was in the top 5 on Amazon. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Oprah Winfrey chooses short story collection Sep 20, 2009
Publishing s surest hitmaker announced Friday that her latest pick was Uwem Akpan s debut collection Say You re One Of Them, practically guaranteeing hundreds of thousands of sales, numbers generally unthinkable for short stories beyond works by Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever and other giants of the art form. By Friday night, Say You re One Of Them was in the top 5 on Amazon. (KHOU.com, TX)
Oprah Chooses Book of Short Stories Sep 19, 2009
Publishing's surest hitmaker was to announce Friday that her latest pick was Uwem Akpan's debut collection "Say You're One Of Them," practically guaranteeing hundreds of thousands of sales, numbers generally unthinkable for short stories beyond works by Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever and other giants of the art form. Akpan is a native of Nigeria and an ordained Jesuit priest who in 2006 received a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Michigan. (CBS News)
The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides Sep 15, 2009
15, 2009 Ernest Hemingway in 1937. Bettmann / Corbis. (Time.com)
Gary Cooper Commemorated on Stamp Sep 13, 2009
Unknown to many, Cooper and Ernest Hemingway were close friends who shared a love for the outdoors ... Cooper's starring role in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) pleased his friend Ernest Hemingway, who had him in mind while writing the novel on which the film is based. (PR Newswire)
A moveable manuscript Sep 13, 2009
The publisher Scribner stirred debate in literary circles this summer when it published a new edition of Ernest Hemingway s A Moveable Feast. Scribner called it restored. (Boston Globe)
On top of the world Sep 12, 2009
"There are only three sports," wrote Ernest Hemingway. "Mountain climbing, bullfighting and motor racing - the rest being games.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Hollywood icon Gary Cooper gets stamp of approval Sep 11, 2009
" onclick="Next();" src="/images/butt_next. " Cooper, who died in 1961 aged 60, entered the movies in the 1920s where he found work playing cowboys, the legacy of his upbringing on a ranch in Montana. "My father would have been very flattered by this honor, but he was always very self deprecating," Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper Janis said Thursday. "If he were here today, he'd probably say, 'See, look what you get for falling off a horse. (Channelnewsasia.com)
‘Old Girlfriends’ traverses emotional wreckage Sep 9, 2009
They seem like writers, and not of the brawny Ernest Hemingway or Norman Mailer variety. And the pieces themselves, in the minimalist, New Yorker tradition of the 80s, don t exactly overwhelm with incident. (Boston Globe)
Gary Cooper to be Commemorated on U.S. Stamp Sep 8, 2009
Cooper's daughter will speak about the iconic actor as a father and be available for interviews on his 20-year friendship with Ernest Hemingway. The two outdoorsmen often hunted and fished together. (PR Newswire)
'Hemingway' is compelling sea adventure Sep 6, 2009
Ernest Hemingway, hunting German subs in World War II, might never have seen one, but he thought he did ... TITLE: The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Which White Will We Witness This Season? Aug 30, 2009
Which White Will We Witness This Season. Ice Man - a fan's perspective on the Thrashers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
AP: Bill Richardson Cleared in Fed's Probe Aug 27, 2009
New Mexico's Gov. Bill Richardson smiles during a visit to the former home of late U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) in San Francisco de Paula, east of Havana, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano). (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
The U.S. 4th Infantry Division Aug 24, 2009
Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger Served with 4th. Among those leading the procession to Paris was famed author Ernest Hemingway, who accompanied the division while working as a war correspondent with Collier's. (Suite101.com)
Huckleberry Finn and the Great Amer... Aug 24, 2009
Ernest Hemingway once declared that with "Huckleberry Finn," American Literature became World Literature. Published in 1884, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is considered to be one of America s best example of regional literature and the Great American Novel. (Suite101.com)
Folks our features staff would have loved to follow on Twitter: Aug 23, 2009
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway. My hands-down pick for a drinks correspondent. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A piece of Horton Bay history, returned Aug 22, 2009
"I told the caller to send it in care of Vilan Kalbfleisch, as I was out of town," explains bookstore owner Jim Hartwell, "and he brought the package through the snow and laid it under the eaves just outside. There it sat, until Hartwell and his daughter, Prudence, came in from chores in the yard later in the year, and they hung it, without ceremony, without fanfare, to resume its place in local lore.But what history has the Red Fox Inn known all these years since?The original wooden structure... (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
The Secret to Being Happy Aug 21, 2009
Ernest Hemingway is quoted as saying, Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Happiness has little to do with intelligence. (Suite101.com)
Jones, Jackson team for HBO's 'Sunset Limited' Aug 21, 2009
Jones just wrapped the John Wells-directed The Company Men with Kevin Costner and hes adapting to star in and direct the Ernest Hemingway novel Islands in the Stream. Jackson just wrapped Unthinkable and Mother and Child. (Variety)
Terry Mort tells of Hemingway hunt for German subs Aug 19, 2009
"The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats" (Scribner, 272 pages, $26), by Terry Mort. Ernest Hemingway, hunting German subs in World War II, may never have seen one, but he thought he did. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Column: Neo-Nutzies still giving North Idaho a bad name Aug 18, 2009
pangborn wrote on Aug 17, 2009 10:12 PM:" While Sara Palin was born in Idaho Ernest Hemingway is buried there.. Ketchum. ". Have something to say about this story. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Ventress Library book group to meet Aug 18, 2009
The featured book is Ernest Hemingway s A Moveable Feast, containing sketches of the author s life in 1920s Paris. As part of the discussion, the group will compare the original 1964 edition with the recently released restored edition. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Highlights for Adventure Travel in ... Aug 17, 2009
Famous visitors included Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway (who crashed his plane there), European royalty, and in 1951, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and the actors and crew of The African Queen. This region offers some of Uganda's best wildlife safaris, with elephant, giraffe buffalo, hippopotamus, and Nile crocodile. (Suite101.com)
Mustache growing,dachshund racing and more Aug 15, 2009
Even the Papa Look-Alike competition in Key West, where the name of the game is to look like Ernest Hemingway, takes effort more than natural ability. Tom Grizzard competed eight times before finally taking the title of Papa in 2008. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Full Story Aug 13, 2009
Among them are Fidel in New York in 1955, with Pope John Paul II in Cuba in 1998, with fellow revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1959 and with writer Ernest Hemingway in 1960. Others depict him scuba diving, canoeing in Venezuela and fixing a tire on a Jeep. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Vt. firefighter, Iraq guardsman writes about war Aug 10, 2009
Middleton, without meaning to, has joined a long and distinguished line of authors who wrote of their war experiences - some of whom, like Ernest Hemingway after World War I or Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut from World War II, became giants of American literature. Almost eight years after the United States went to war in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11, war memoirs like Middleton's and books by reporters, diplomats and retired generals are filling store shelves. (Concord Monitor)
CNN's Soledad O'Brien to highlight ISU's fall speaker series Aug 9, 2009
The Ernest Hemingway expert edits "The Hemingway Review" and teaches at University of Idaho. Sept. 17 - "Freakonomics," Steven Levitt, 7 p.m., Braden Auditorium. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Been and gone Aug 4, 2009
Instead his life, funded in part by a legacy from his mother, consisted of a Boy's Own series of adventures which included sailing into the middle of a revolution in Cuba in 1954, accompanying the author Ernest Hemingway to bull fights and building a replica of an 18th century village in Spain. His mighty frame, he was 6ft 6in tall, attracted the attention of the film director Robert Altman. (BBC News -- UK)
REAL LIFE SPURS NOVEL IDEA Aug 3, 2009
"It all unfolds in one day in 1968, the day Bobby Kennedy was shot, and it takes us to Cuba and Ernest Hemingway. Me, I asked, how's he connect all these dots? Said William Kennedy: "I don't know. Beginning to wonder myself how I'm doing it. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Texas Man Wins Hemingway Contest Jul 28, 2009
(AP) A 55-year-old Texan, wearing the requisite white beard and sporting a sweater, won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, one of the highlights of a six-day annual festival honoring the late Nobel prize-winning author. Dressed in a wool fisherman's turtleneck sweater despite 90-degree temperatures, David Douglas of Cypress bested 139 other contenders at the "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, staged Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar, the author's favorite watering hole. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Cruz wins Key West marlin tournament Jul 27, 2009
"Cruz, a veterinarian in Cudjoe Key, Fla., won the tournament's top $25,000 prize aboard the Doc Cruiser with a 23.05-pound dolphin caught Friday and blue marlin released Thursday.In third-place was Cracker, skippered by Mark Schultz of Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Cracker's angler Maurice Gibson of Alva, Fla., caught a 17.8-pound dolphin Friday and released a blue marlin Thursday. The 53-boat, 390-participant tournament was staged in conjunction with the island's Hemingway Days festival, an annual... (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Texas man wins Hemingway look-alike contest Jul 27, 2009
- A 55-year-old Texan wearing the requisite white beard and sporting a sweater won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest ; one of the highlights of a six-day annual festival honoring the late Nobel prize-winning author ... Paul Gagnon displays a vintage "Life" magazine cover featuring Ernest Hemingway to convince the judges he should win the 2009 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike contest Saturday at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla ... - A 55-year-old Texan wearing the requisite white beard and... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Perfect Papas! Jul 27, 2009
A 55-year-old Texan wearing the requisite white beard and sporting a sweater won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest one of the highlights of a six-day annual festival honoring the late Nobel prize-winning author ... A Michigan high school teacher won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, the literary centerpiece of Key West s annual salute to Ernest Hemingway that ends Sunday ... The awards announcement took place Friday night at Casa Antigua, Ernest Hemingway s first Key West... (The Palm Beach Post)
Summer reading for the outdoorsman Jul 26, 2009
Nick Lyons, Ernest Hemingway, George Bird Evans, Edmund Ware Smith, Charlie Elliott, Horatio Bigelow, Harold Sheldon, Burton Spiller, Eugene Connett, Vereen Bell, and a host of others you'll have reading enough for a whole bunch of summers. Outdoor calendar. (Herald Online, SC -- Sports)
Cuba visitor a free man, despite best efforts Jul 25, 2009
During his eight-day trip to Cuba, Mora spent about $50 in government-controlled stores on a green and red Che Guevara beret, a Cuba T-shirt, Cuban flag refrigerator magnets, and postcards featuring a picture of Fidel Castro shaking hands with author Ernest Hemingway. "They say if you buy these clothes or anything else, it goes to Castro's hands," Mora said in Havana. (MSNBC -- International)
Vote for the best 'Vegas Nights' trip tale Jul 23, 2009
OK, so 3 people decided they might brighten their day or someone else s. They didn t claim to be Truman Capote or Ernest Hemingway or even Candace Bushnell (Sex & The City author) or Jim Carrey just everyday people who retreated out of the real world for just a moment to recall a frivilous moment in their lives. So what. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Grotesque sex scenes and excruciating violence... Jul 21, 2009
As Ernest Hemingway said of obscenity in a justifiably disgusting image, you don't need to eat a whole bowl of scabs to know they're scabs. Here is the 'plot' of Antichrist, with apologies in advance. (The Drudge Report)
The life Hemingway made Jul 20, 2009
She was referring to the paucity of tourists, but I could not help imagining Ernest Hemingway saying those words while paying a posthumous visit to a place he loved. Surely, in 1928, when he and Pauline Pfeiffer bought the two-story house on Whitehead Avenue, there weren t any shops on Duval Street selling thongs with Slippery When Wet. (Boston Globe)
IN MY LIBRARY: BUCK HENRY Jul 20, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009 Last Update: 04:55 AM EDT. hide stories RELATED TOPICS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Nicholas Lemann: The real legacy of Cold War espionage. Jul 20, 2009
It exonerates Robert Oppenheimer and it reveals that Ernest Hemingway had five meetings with K.G.B. operatives but was never successfully recruited. The problem is that the book sets the bar for being a spy or an agent awfully low. (New Yorker)
An insightful, if worshipful, look at Albert Camus Jul 19, 2009
In the pantheon of photogenic writers with auras, Albert Camus shares the dais with Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett, no question. Camus, with his trench coat, Gauloises, and Bogart mien. (Boston Globe)
Odd baby name linked to later bad behavior Jul 18, 2009
While Burnett and TODAYs Matt Lauer noted that having a name making the list of possible future criminals didnt stop the likes of Alec Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway from succeeding in life, there are plenty of prior studies that back up the Kalist report. In writing about the Social Science Quarterly report, Time magazine pointed to a 1993 study that showed boys who have strange spellings of common first names (read Patric, Geoffrey) are less likely to be upstanding and successful; a 2001... (MSNBC -- Health)
Useless knowledge: Are you well read? Jul 17, 2009
Which novel by Ernest Hemingway focuses on the pilgrimage of the main characters to Pamplona, Spain, for the running of the bulls. 17. (Montana Standard, MT)
Shadow of a Doubt meets "The Killer... Jul 16, 2009
How Ernest Hemingway helped inspire a Hitchcock masterpiece. Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" served as a model for the opening scene of Shadow of a Doubt ... After hearing the details of the Merry Widow Murderer, Wilder was immediately reminded of an Ernest Hemingway short story called The Killers, in which a man awaits his impending death by two assassins. (Suite101.com)
Palm Beach Gardens man who just finished 4,200-mile motorcycle trip killed in West Palm Beach crash Jul 16, 2009
Last year, Canaday made his fifth foray into the annual Key West Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition. He told The Palm Beach Post that he'd been in Key West for a party in 1989 when he saw a flyer for the contest. (The Palm Beach Post)
interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
Who can possibly turn away from the likes of Saul Bellow, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Dorothy Parker, Robert Gottlieb and others. The interviews are formal and thoughtful but never dry and can replace any dozen "how-to" books on writing. (Harper's Magazine)
Hemingway Days in Key West, July 21... Jul 14, 2009
The new Papa Hemingway will be announced on Saturday, July 25, also at 6:30 p.m. All look-alike judging takes place at Sloppy Joe's Bar, 201 Duval Street, a favorite Ernest Hemingway hangout ... Commemorating Ernest Hemingway s birth is a birthday party at the Key West Museum of Art & History at the Customs House, 281 Front St. ... A Key West visit is complete with a trip to the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum. (Suite101.com)
OLD IS NEW: Saturday Evening Post looks to its past in shaping future Jul 12, 2009
Post officials also hope that by mixing the magazine's popular art and health features with such content as commentary by former CBS News "Sunday Morning" host Charles Osgood, poetry by Ray Bradbury and fiction by John Hemingway, grandson of Ernest Hemingway, the magazine could boost circulation to 500,000 in the coming years. Mercho said some people are surprised the Post still exists. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Why Books are Banned Jul 12, 2009
Well known authors whose books have been banned include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, JD Salinger, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack London, for a small part of a long list. The American Library Association has lists of banned books online at their website. (Suite101.com)
Horrified crowd sees bull gore man to death Jul 11, 2009
Other runners jumped over wooden barriers along the edge of the cobbled streets where the San Fermin festival has been held since 1911 and was made famous by the writer Ernest Hemingway. The dead man was named by organisers as Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, from the town of Alcalade Henares near Madrid. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Book: Ernest Hemingway Was KGB Agent Jul 11, 2009
Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Ernest Hemingway agreed to serve as a spy for the Soviet intelligence agency KGB in the 1940s, according to a new book. "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America" was co-authored by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. (Newsmax)
Grandson of Ernest Hemingway edits new version of author’s memoir Jul 10, 2009
Grandson of Ernest Hemingway edits new version of author s memoir ... Ernest Hemingway BOZEMAN (AP) Forty-five years after the original publication of A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway s grandson has edited a new version of the famous memoir of life in Paris for the struggling young writer and the lost generation of the 1920s ... Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in 1961, before his Paris memoir was finished. (Helena Independent Record)
Don’t mess with this Hemingway Jul 10, 2009
BY THE time he died in 1961, Ernest Hemingway had become a self-caricature, drunken, irascible, overbearing, embarrassing his fourth wife by infatuations with young prot. g. (Boston Globe)
DeWitts own Spanish War Ace honored Jul 9, 2009
During Tinker s time in Spain, he became friends with a young journalist, Ernest Hemingway, who later supported Tinker as he was trying to re-enter the United States as a citizen after his military action in Spain caught up with him and Uncle Sam refused Tinker re-entry ... Ernest Hemingway commented on his friend s life after Tinker s death, ;The key to Tinker s character was his ability to walk on the tightrope between his exposure to the brutalization of war and the simple faith of his... (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
