never cared for hemandhaws pointless stories,,, seemed like the ultimate cynic to me,
“Dead white guy. Let’s write a column to declare him irrelevant!”
I’ve got this set to record. I think he led an interesting, colorful life.
I keep sending him a check, but he just keeps reinvoicing me all over again.
When I first started out writing, my dad who was a yuuuuge Hemingway fan criticized me because his hero Hemingway wrote standing up while I sat down. I told him that Hemingway also wrote while drunk so should I also follow suit?
If Ken Burns is involved, I assume there is a strong race angle. Was Hemingway part of the KKK or otherwise politically incorrect? Will the documentary give special credit to Langston Hughes or somebody? Burns never tells a straight-forward story about whites.
We were tortured to read The Sun Also Rises in HS...................
I admire Hemingway’s no-frills writing style. He lived an interesting life but he certainly was NOT a good role model in his personal life.
I am guessing that this will not bring up his communist sympathies ...
I wouldn’t say we really “owe him” and I don’t see much of a legacy. He wrote a few decent things, but was fairly pretentious and skewed left way too easily.
Owe him?
He still owes me fifty bucks.
“Can you spot me fifty? I’ve got a new book coming up that’s sure to be a hit. It’s a sequel. I call it The Old Man And The Sea Part 2. The old guy goes fishing again only this time a big white whale comes by looking for a bus stop. It can’t miss!”
Hemingway played a writer in life. WIn his time what he did when he wasn’t writing was more important to the image than his writing. When we no longer have the guy playing the two fisted, hard drinking super macho writer, WHAT he actually wrote can’t support a literary legacy.
I, an ardent reader, couldnt stand his “stories”.They forced me to read The Old Man and the Sea, and I tried For Whom the Bell Tolls when I was 10 or 11 and I came away with the very strong impression that the author very much doubted his manhood.
How naive can you be?
PBS/Chappie Burns vs. a long dead Hemingway?
Who do you suppose will get the last word in that exchange?
Fool.
Other than Atlas Shrugged, have never been much of a fiction reader. Am glad i was able to dodge most of the “recommended reading” list in high school, Hemmingway included. Shakespere—always get Macbeth and Hamlet mixed up and who cares anyway. Had three digbat college English professors but got 2 As and a B.
Ken Burns is a leftie Hillaryista but I liked the Civil War and especially Empire of the Air.
I found Hemingway’s writing depressing. Apparently Hemingway found it so depressing himself that he committed suicide.
I never met anyone who knew Hemingway who liked him.
I enjoyed Hemingway. Guess that makes me a misogynist.
“Big Two-Hearted River” has some great fishing scenes in it.
And dames. Can’t forget the dames.
I have read some of Hemingway’s novels, and never came away with a tenth of the nonsense this man is so grieved over.
My admiration for Hemingway began when I read the short story, “The Old Man at the Bridge.” Written during the hideous Spanish Civil War, he was a war correspondent and took a news report he had just submitted and turned it into a piece of literature.
>>Hemingway Foundation had to launch a GoFundMe campaign to keep the museum at his birthplace open.
No royalties from the books and adapted works to pay for this?
No stimulus in $2trillion in pork?
Hemingway had nothing on James Thurber.