What ifs: if Hadley had not lost the manuscripts on the train??? Not sure how helpful this is to contemplate but interesting for sure. If Hem had not had to start over in a way after that loss, would he have evolved a different style?

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Imaginary Books To Go On Show at Grolier Club

FROM THE COLLECTION OF REID BYERS

Many authors, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Ursa Minor β: Megadodo Publications, n.d. Computer tablet and massive interstellar infrastructure.

A new exhibition on view at The Grolier Club next month will be part conceptual art installation and part bibliophilic entertainment, featuring a collection of books that do not really exist.

On view from December 5 through February 15, 2025, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books presents an alternative library that encourages speculation on some of the major “what ifs” of bibliographic history.

Curated by Grolier Club member Reid Byers from his own collection, the exhibition includes more than 100 imaginary books such as lost texts that have no surviving example, unfinished books, and fictive works that exist only in story. All of the “books” are simulacra meticulously created by Byers with a team of printers, bookbinders, artists, and calligraphers.

The display evokes a private library where visitors will find:

  • William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Won, the lost sequel to Love’s Labour’s Lost, of which no known copies survive
  • Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, which vanished when his wife’s suitcase was stolen from a train at the Gare de Lyon, Paris, in 1922, never to be recovered

    with Bumby
  • the Necronomicon, a magical textbook sealed in a Wells Fargo strongbox as a precaution

“An encounter with an imaginary book brings us forcibly to a liminal moment,” said Byers, “confronted with an object that we know does not exist, but then it leaves us suspended in this strange space, for being magical, the book is not to be touched. It appears before us only to amuse, to prompt a gasp, a knowing chuckle, or the briefest thought of ‘O, how I wish!’. Every book in the world was an imaginary book when it was first begun to be written.”

On view are a wide range of lost books that we know once existed but of which no examples now survive. Some were intentionally destroyed, such as Lord Byron’s memoirs which he said detailed “the evils, moral and physical, of true dissipation.” The manuscript was burned by his publisher in 1824. Other works lost to history but shown here are such risqué tales as Sir Richard Burton’s translation of The Scented Garden which was burned at his death by his wife Isabel who thought it was obscene and would damage his reputation.

The first volume of Aristotle’s Poetics, which focuses on Tragedy and Epic, is the earliest surviving work on dramatic theory. The exhibition will offer visitors the second volume, On Comedy, which was lost in the late Middle Ages when the last surviving copy was burned in an Italian monastery in 1327. Other tragic losses include philosopher Pierre Abélard’s Poèmes pour Héloïse and the beautifully bound Poems of Sappho.

There will also be unfinished books, which were begun in some fashion, but were never completed or brought to publication, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan. Waking inspired from an opium-induced reverie, Coleridge claimed he rushed to write down his great poem, but only captured 54 lines before he was interrupted by a visitor. When he returned to the work, his vision had evaporated, and the book on view imagines what might have been if he had been able to continue.

Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel Double Exposure (1962) was at the centre of a fraught battle. After her death, Plath’s husband Ted Hughes and her mother fought over the manuscript, and it mysteriously vanished around 1970. The cover features a double portrait of Plath’s young heroine with one image seemingly blown away by the wind. In a lighter vein, Raymond Chandler jokingly threatened to write Shakespeare in Baby Talk under the pseudonym of Aaron Klopstein. It includes two of Shakespeare’s plays written in baby talk and an enlightening essay on As Ums Wikes It.

Fictive books exist only in story and never had any physical form of existence whatsoever. Two such books on view, featuring striking purple covers, are The Songs of the Jabberwock, first mentioned in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, with mirror-image writing; and the dark farce The Lady Who Loved Lightning by Clare Quilty, first mentioned by Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.

Magical books include The History and Practice of English Magic by Jonathan Strange and The Necronomicon, the most notorious of the Levantine grimoires (or magical textbooks), which has been kept sealed in a Wells Fargo strongbox since the Crickle accident in 1968. Mentioned in many works by H.P. Lovecraft, legend claims that its use results in a horrible death at the claws of invisible monsters. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, displayed on a tablet using a massive interstellar infrastructure, is a guidebook for the entire universe and the most useful book ever written, even when it is wildly inaccurate.

A catalogue titled Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books will be available from Oak Knoll Press. The Grolier Club will host related free public programs, and a panel discussion during Bibliography Week on January 22, 2025.

This day 1954: Hem receives the Nobel Prize for Literature (Should have received in in 1941 for For Whom the Bell Tolls but none was awarded as the committee was split. Some found it too…. indelicate.)

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1886 – Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti ticker tape parade in New York City.

1904 – St. Louis police try a new investigation method – fingerprints.

1913 – “Krazy Kat” comic strip by Geroge Herriman debuts in New York Journal.

1919 – Volstead Act passed by Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.

1922 – First coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game between Princeton and the University of Chicago.

1929 – Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 38.33 points (13%) to 260.84.

1936 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

1945 – German submarine U-220 sunk by United States aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean.

1954 – Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway.

1958 – Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of the Year. His batting average went from .230 in 1957 to .322 in 1958.

1962 – New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Title passes for 7 touchdowns in a 49-34 win against the Washington Redskins.

1974 – Luna 23 launched and it landed on the moon on November 2.

1978 – Bobby Orr scores his last career National Hockey League goal while playing for the Chicago Blackhawks. Detroit won the game 7-2.

1986 – The centennial of the Statue of Liberty’s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.

1988 – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library.

1997 – NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as the first women to officiate a major professional all-male sports league.

2008 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later cancelled Constellation program.

2015 – World Health Organization ranks tuberculosis alongside HIV as the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million people in 2014.

2020 – Global COVID-19 cases record one-day increase of more than 500,000 for the first time, rising 25% in under two weeks, according to Reuters.

2021 – Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will change its corporate name to Meta amid increased public scrutiny over leaked internal documents.

Hemingway’s Life Never Stops Being Fascinating. I listened to Mary V. Dearborn’s biography on Audio a few years ago. It’s long and it’s good. She doesn’t seem to love him–i.e. she is not gentle–but she backs up the good and the bad. Photos added by me except the top one.

Bonus (this is me, Christine.) A Farewell to Arms is being re-made into a movie. I’ll have to check out Tom Blyth as Frederic Henry

having a meal with Ingrid Bergman but not in Miami or Key West

, I presume.

Ernest Hemingway Biography From Mary V. Dearborn Set For TV Series Adaptation Through Avatar Entertainment

Ernest Hemingway in 1939
The author Ernest Hemingway in 1939Lloyd Arnold/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

EXCLUSIVE: The life of legendary author Ernest Hemingway is set to become a ten-part TV drama.

LA’s Avatar Entertainment has secured rights to Mary V. Dearborn‘s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography and was at MIPCOM this week shopping the project to buyers. Larry Robinson, Head of Avatar Entertainment, will exec produce the series.

Dearborn’s 750-page biography follows the author’s life from his middle-class childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, to his life as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, his career as a journalist in Chicago, his life among other preeminent authors in Paris and the establishment of Hemingway as the world’s most famous novelists. Gersh represents the Hemingway estate, but Dearborn’s book about the author’s life sit outside of that.

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The biography, which has received praise from The Washington Post as “the most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available,” extensively chronicles his time in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Geneva, Kenya, Wyoming, Key West and the Normandy landing of World War II, and explores his Nobel Prize win of 1953, his four wives, multiple affairs and, ultimately, his suicide at his Idaho ranch.

Agnes von Kurowsky, first “real” love

Last year, we reported Michael Winterbottom has been putting together a remake of A Farewell to Arms alongside Fremantle, with the likes of Tom Blyth attached. The novel has previously been adapted to the big screen by Oscar-winning director Frank Borzage in 1932, with Cooper in the starring role opposite Helen Hayes, and then in 1957 by Charles Vidor and John Huston with Hudson co-starring opposite Jennifer Jones. Hamilton and Vanessa Redgrave reprised the roles in a UK mini-series adaptation in 1966.

“I see Mary V. Dearborn’s definitive biography of Hemingway to be the foundational IP for an awards-worthy, super-premium TV series that will attract major talent both in front and behind the camera,” said Robinson. “The way Hemingway lived was the personification of ‘larger than life’.”

Avatar has become increasingly active in the book-to-screen business as demand for projects with established audiences grows. Robinson this year acquired rights to spy thriller Operation Kazan (Operacion Kazan) from Spanish journalist Vincente Vallés and had it set up at a major studio, though we understand that agreement is now over. He has also partnered with exec producer Stephanie Germain on a separate novel adaptation.

Mary Dearborn is represented by George Bouchard Agency and Robinson is represented by CAA.

Reminder that there is a wealth of knowledge about Hemingway in Boston at the JFK Library. See below program on Oct 16

A collage with Ernest Hemingway photos and archival material
Dear Friend,

Please join us for a virtual exploration of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s special website, Hemingway at the JFK, on Wednesday, October 16, at 6:00p.m. ET!

Seán and Colette Hemingway will introduce this opportunity to hear about the creation and content of this exciting digital project from Hilary Justice, the Library’s Hemingway Scholar in Residence.

Designed as a “living website,” the Hemingway at the JFK project offers an ever-evolving exploration of Ernest Hemingway’s life, works, and legacy. The content, written and curated by experts, draws from The Ernest Hemingway Collection at the JFK Library and from an international network of archives, museums, libraries, and historical societies.

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The JFK Library stands today as the world’s pre-eminent research center for Ernest Hemingway’s life and work, with the Hemingway collection comprising over 11,000 photographs and nearly 90% of the writer’s known papers, including letters, drafts, and journals.

We hope you will join us for this program honoring both President and Mrs. Kennedy’s belief in the importance of the arts and Ernest Hemingway’s legacy.

With Gratitude,

Rachel Flor
Executive Director, JFK Library Foundation

OK KIDS, you can do this at home but don’t drive! Best, Christine (Some photos added by me.)

Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Cocktail Was An Absolute Classic

Story by Stacie Adams

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Ernest Hemingway staring off-camera© Kurt Hutton/Getty Images

While Ernest Hemingway’s literary output is legendary, his love of alcoholic beverages is equally so. One drink, in particular, was said to have captivated the author so deeply that he enjoyed 16 of them in one sitting. While it’s often hard to separate myth from truth, especially when it comes to a towering figure like Hemingway, the consensus is that the writer absolutely adored daiquiris after sampling one at a bar in Havana, Cuba, albeit with a variation on the original recipe.

Spencer Tracy, Ernest and Mary Hemingway, and others at La Florida, Havana, Cuba, circa 1955. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

A classic daiquiri recipe features rum, lime juice, and sweetener (often simple syrup) plus a lime garnish. These ingredients are added to a shaker containing ice and then strained. It’s not to be confused with frozen daiquiris, which features the same ingredients but blended with ice. Classic daiquiris have a reputation for being sweet, which Hemingway reportedly wasn’t fond of. That led to a tweak of the ingredients typically included in the drink, which was dubbed Hemingway’s daiquiri or Papa Doble (as papa was a nickname often attributed to the author).

Hemingway’s Daiquiri Vs. The Classic Recipe

daiquiri cocktail with limes© Jamie Grill/Getty Images

Ernest Hemingway’s substantial appetite for liquor had much to do with his suggested variations on the classic daiquiri. The writer’s version nixed the sugar and included twice the rum as the original cocktail. While undeniably potent, the absence of sweetness in Hemingway’s cocktail makes it rather one-note when it comes to flavor. Other recipes for Hemingway’s namesake beverage include grapefruit juice and maraschino liqueur, which is derived from tart marasca cherries.

Hemingway’s boozy spin on the daiquiri wasn’t the author’s only alcoholic concoction. It’s also claimed that Hemingway invented a drink called Death in the Afternoon, a straightforward cocktail consisting of just two ingredients: absinthe and champagne (variations on Death in the Afternoon include replacing the Champagne with Chardonnay). Absinthe is a potent liquor best known for its herbaceous flavor, as well as its purported ability to induce hallucinations, thanks to the inclusion of wormwood. Hemingway’s invention even shares a name with “Death in the Afternoon,” the author’s ode to bullfighting, which was published in 1932.

Other Alcoholic Beverages Beloved By The Author

Ernest Hemingway drinking with Martha Gellhorn© Bettmann/Getty Images

While lots of tall tales surround Ernest Hemingway and his insatiable appetite for booze, one can gain insight into his favorite drinks by reviewing his literary works. To this end, the author talked about whiskey and soda frequently, which is a humble concoction consisting of, you guessed it, club soda and scotch whiskey. Other cocktails mentioned by the writer include negronis, martinis, and americanos, which feature sweet vermouth, Campari, and chilled soda water.

Writing and not drinking

There is one cocktail often claimed to be among Papa Hemingway’s favorites, with little truth to substantiate the rumor. Mojitos are commonly mentioned in connection to the writer thanks to a note posted inside a ’50s-era Havana-based bar, which stated Hemingway’s preference for the drink. As for the authenticity of the note, a friend of Hemingway claimed that it was not penned in the author’s own hand but instead forged to attract customers to the establishment. As a result, it’s not clear that the writer was truly a fan of the classic mojito. What is undisputed is that Hemingway had a real passion for imbibing and wasn’t shy about tweaking classic cocktail recipes to make them his own.

Read the original article on The Daily Meal.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Banned in FLA.: There are no words.

Banned Books are Fighting Back

Major Publishers, Authors, Parents and Students Challenge Florida’s School Book Bans

Book Publishers, Authors, and Parents Are Fighting Back Against Florida Book Bans

It is Banned Books Week and MidPoint addressed it on September 25, 2024. Recently, Florida and Texas are the states in competition for the most books banned in public schools, according to PEN America. Missouri, Utah, and South Carolina are not far behind in the competition for which state is the most retrograde, revisionist, and racist, at least in the book-banning event of the UNWOKE Olympics. But now, the books are fighting back. In a landmark federal lawsuit filed last month against the Florida Board of Education by a group of the major U.S. book publishers, The Authors’ Guild, public school parents, and students, a challenge has been mounted to the Florida law that bans books containing sexual content deemed “pornographic.”

Classic Books Have Been Banned in Florida

As a result of  Florida law HB 1069, hundreds of titles have been banned across the state since the bill went into effect in July 2023. The list of banned books includes classics such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, as well as contemporary novels by bestselling authors such as Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, and Stephen King. Among nonfiction titles, accounts of the Holocaust such as The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank have also been removed.

The First Amendment Protects the Right to Receive Ideas in Books

Our guests today to discuss this lawsuit were Dan Novack, V.P and General Counsel of Penguin Random House publishers, the lead plaintiff in the case, and Judi Hayes, an Orange County Public Schools parent suing on behalf of her sons who attend public school there. Dan Novack explained that the law was being challenged on First Amendment Free Speech grounds, primarily because it provides for the censorship and removal of any book that is alleged to be “pornographic,” even though “pornographic” is not a term with a real legal definition. According to Penguin Random House, unless a book is found to be “obscene” under the U.S. Supreme Court’s legal definition, it is lawful, but, ultimately, whether it should be available to students in schools is a determination best left to trained educators, librarians, and a child’s parents, and not to random individuals of varying sensibilities. Florida’s law instead censors and removes the targeted book first, upon someone’s objection, then keeps the book out of school libraries, all while the book goes through a vague and lengthy review process, which may vary by county and result in inconsistent determinations around the state applying to the same book. Both Dan Novack and Judi Hayes argued that the decision of whether or not a child is ready and mature enough to read certain books should be made by their parents and educators, and not by an outside individual seeking to remove access to books from all children, which is the process the law currently provides. While the State may argue that it has the right to restrict speech in schools to further “pedagogical interests,” the broad right to receive ideas is fundamental to the First Amendment; that right should be protected to the greatest extent against State restrictions.

You can listen to the complete show here, on the WMNF app, or as a WMNF Midpoint podcast from your favorite podcast purveyor.

 

A Man and his Cats (Photos of Hem’s cats added by me.)

The Blue Collar Bookseller review: The Hemingway Hoax

    • Kevin Coolidge
  • Never trust a man who doesn’t like cats…Irish proverb

Uncanny focus, curious, observant, a dislike for being disturbed — they sit for long periods of time and sleep more than they probably should. Writers are a lot like cats. Complex, unorthodox, full of personality quirks, hunting when he wills it, working when it’s time — a writer is not a herd animal.

Now, I’m not saying you have to have a cat to be a writer, but the best writers have at least one cat. Mark TwainNeil GaimanRay BradburyRobert Heinlein — they all loved cats. It helps to have someone to understand that writing is a process. You aren’t being unproductive or lazy. You are cultivating stillness.

Hem drinks with Boise

One of the most influential and manliest writers* of the 20th Century, Ernest Hemingway, was a dedicated feline lover. Like most cat hoarders, he started with a single cat. A ship’s captain gave Hemingway a white six-toed cat, named Snowball.

Today, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum on Key West is a playground to approximately 40-50 polydactyl cats. Cats normally have five front toes and four back toes. Not all the cats at the Home have the extra thumb, but they all carry the gene, and can give birth to a Hemingway cat.

If you take the tour, you’ll hear that these kitties can trace their lineage back to the original Snowball, but James Nagel, a Hemingway scholar, claims that Hemingway didn’t have cats when he lived in that house.

“Hemingway liked cats but Pauline, to whom he was married, wanted peacocks. So they got peacocks for the yard … The time when he had so many cats was when he lived in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba.” The estate in Key West is just one of the many places trying to cash in on the writer and the cats associated with him, claims Nagel.

Hem with boys and cat

Regardless of where you fall on the Key West cat debate, Hemingway wrote some of his best work in this home, including the final draft to A Farewell to Arms and the short story classic The Snows of Kilimanjaro. I rather suspect there was at least one cat around.

Waiting, seeking, stalking — striking and feasting on the flesh of your thoughts to satisfy a primal need. You are a writer, and you must feed the hunger, and the cat. OK, you can get yourself a big slobbery dog**, but if you want to be a writer that is remembered, you need to get yourself a cat…

Cat in the Rain

*Hemingway ran with bulls, hunted, fished, went on safari, occasionally took a rifle with him, though he preferred his fists. He wrestled bears, rode sharks, and never shed a tear when he got a paper cut. This is also a man that named a cat Snowball…

**Don’t buy into all the cat crap. Jim KjelgaardWilson RawlsJack London — all were dog lovers. Of course, if you have a dog, the stipulation is that you are an outdoor writer.

Kevin Coolidge is currently a full-time factory worker, and a part-time bookseller at From My Shelf Books & Gifts in Wellsboro, Pa. When he’s not working, he’s writing. He’s also a children’s author and the creator of The Totally Ninja Raccoons, a children’s series for reluctant readers. Visit his author website at kevincoolidge.org

 

Across the River and Into the Woods–THE MOVIE (some photos added by me)

MOVIE REVIEW

Hemingway’s Worst Novel Is Now a Slightly Better Movie

Enzo Cilenti and Liev Schreiber in Across the River and Into the Trees.
Enzo Cilenti and Liev Schreiber in Across the River and Into the Trees. Photo: Level 33 Entertainment/Everett Collection

In Across the River and Into the Trees, Liev Schreiber, a very fine actor whom I’d never thought of as resembling Ernest Hemingway, has been made up to evoke, if not exactly mirror, the legendary American author. With his wide face, white beard, sad eyes, and a chest somehow both barrel-shaped and concave, the actor brings a hint of the wounded, rueful poet to the part of the weary Colonel Richard Cantwell, an American veteran of both World Wars now wandering aimlessly through postwar Venice. Cantwell is a tough old soldier, but he seems more like a guy who’d rather talk about art and literature than war and conquest — or, for that matter, duck hunting, an activity he tells everyone he’s hoping to do a lot of during his Venice sojourn, but which he seems not particularly enthusiastic about.

The creation of this spiritual and visual bond between author and protagonist in the film makes sense. Cantwell was based on a couple of people, but he was also the most autobiographical of Hemingway’s characters, in ways both touching and prophetically ominous: About a decade after the novel’s 1950 publication, Hemingway would commit suicide in the same way Cantwell does at the end of the book, thus giving the character’s enveloping sadness a heartbreaking historical resonance. (Hemingway’s own father had done something similar, and the idea haunts much of his work.)

One doesn’t need to know all this to understand or appreciate Paula Ortiz’s film of Across the River and Into the Trees, which takes Hemingway’s ambling, memory-inflected tale and fashions it into a melancholy love story, focusing largely on Cantwell’s romantic conversations and wanderings through Venice with a young, questioning countess, Renata, played by Matilda De Angelis. But in so doing, Ortiz (and screenwriter Peter Flannery) remove what made the novel, for all its massive flaws, unique. The book is built around Cantwell’s memories, as expressed through his own fleeting flashbacks and his interactions with Renata. In these moments he speaks not just of his own life but of any number of things: authors, art, alcohol, battles, generals, the relative quality of French soldiers, the need to forgive your enemies. And it’s all rendered in language of almost unbearable simplicity — even for Hemingway — perhaps in an effort to evoke the cultural differences between the weary American and the young Italian.

There’s no real way to adapt all that without getting laughed off the screen, so Ortiz and Flannery opt for more naturalistic dialogue. But they also keep the memory-play to a minimum, opting instead for a couple of brief, key flashbacks to a bloody wartime encounter in the forest between Cantwell’s soldiers and the enemy. It all makes perfect sense, craft-wise, but it also results in something pedestrian. The movie plays at times like one of Richard Linklater’s Before films, but without the improvisational verve that gave those works such urgency and heart.

Ortiz’s film does have its charms. The Venice locations are presented with all their nocturnal mystery intact, their shadows and deep colors allowing us to imagine beyond the frame. De Angelis is radiant — veteran Spanish cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe contrasts the smooth, luminous beauty of her features with the grizzled, combat-zone roughness of Schreiber’s — and the actress has captured the ethereal nature of Renata, who serves in the novel as a figure of both emotional reconciliation and death. The filmmakers even give her something to do besides just be a vessel for Cantwell’s reveries: He first meets her when she gives him a ride in her gondola. Schreiber is of course always interesting to watch. He’s one of those actors who has become more compelling with age, even as the big parts seem to be drying up. It’s nice to see him take center stage in a movie again.

This is tough, tough material. The novel of Across the River and Into the Trees got vicious reviews at the time, and although its reputation has been somewhat redeemed over the ensuing decades (partly because several of Hemingway’s many posthumously edited and released works are so, so much worse), it’s never really found an audience comparable to the writer’s beloved classics. It doesn’t have much of a story, and a lot of it reads like self-parody. Hemingway’s characteristic minimalism feels less like poetic concision this time around and more like an inability to find the right words; the meter and personality are there, but gone are the depth and dimension, the seemingly effortless shading that made Hemingway’s other characters pop off the page. The result is that while Cantwell might be the most haunted of the author’s literary avatars, he’s also the most one-dimensional.

So, it’s a problematic work but an intensely readable one; I think it’s the worst thing Hemingway published in his lifetime and yet I’ve somehow managed to read it four times. As S.F. Sanderson, one of the book’s defenders, said at the time: “[It] reads, in many passages, as if Hemingway-the-legend were being interviewed by the press.” Is there any way to translate that to the screen? Is it even worth trying? Across the River and Into the Trees gives it a shot, and it doesn’t succeed, but there’s a nobility in such failure, too. A certain long-deceased Nobel laureate might have had something to say about that.

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Newest Press Review of Hemingway’s Daughter

Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of the novel’s journey for a book that is so close to my soul.  Heartfelt gratitude. Christine

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Christine Whitehead Releases a New Fictional Novel: “Hemingway’s Daughter”

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Stories often echo the realities of life in the world of literature. Christine M. Whitehead [https://christinewhitehead.com/] is a seasoned author and practicing divorce lawyer from New England, who has recently invited us to glimpse into her emotionally resonant novel, “Hemingway’s Daughter [https://christinewhitehead.com/about-the-books/].” This novel takes you on a journey that makes you witness the aspirations and struggles of a character who seeks to redefine her destiny against the background of a legendary literary legacy.

This fictional story is set in a time when gender roles were being defined rigidly. “Hemingway’s Daughter” tells us the story of Finn Hemingway, a character who is born out of time and expectations. She is a woman with dreams that are too large for the confines of her reality – a reality where Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being marginalized and a woman’s achievements in law are overshadowed by her male counterparts. Here, Finn embodies the spirit of every woman who dared to dream big in a world that tried to keep her small.

Finn has aspirations that are threefold: to become a trailblazing trial lawyer, to find true love despite a family curse that has doomed the Hemingways to tragic endings in romance, and most importantly, to leave an unforgettable mark on her father’s writing. Ernest Hemingway is a towering figure in literature who yearned for a daughter, and Finn Hemingway is the living manifestation of that longing. Her journey is not just about reaching her goals but also about experiencing the complexities of familial expectations and the burden of a famous surname.

Having a vast background as a divorce lawyer and living on a rural farm in Connecticut, Christine Whitehead fills this story with raw authenticity and heartfelt emotion. Her love for animals and nature adds a special charm to her storytelling, which is reflected in her idyllic farm life surrounded by dogs, horses, and a brave cat. The novel does not just have a compelling plot but also explores themes like gender inequality, the pursuit of love, and the quest for personal identity.

In “Hemingway’s Daughter [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1916965636/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Hemingways+Daughter],” readers will find a story that connects with the struggles of every individual who has ever dared to dream in the face of adversity. It is a story that defines the enduring spirit of determination and the belief that the word ‘almost’ can be a light of hope in the pursuit of one’s dreams.

“Hemingway’s Daughter” goes beyond being just a mere novel. It inspires and mirrors the obstacles that women have faced throughout history. It pays homage to the everlasting impact of one of the most influential writers of all time. This fictional book is not just for fans of Hemingway but for anyone who believes in the potential of dreams and the strength it takes to chase them.

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Two Amazing new Hemingway Themed Books!

Two New Hemingway Books Receive Glowing Reviews

Novel and Biography Shed New Light on Famous Author

Interest in Hemingway ebbs and flows, but he seems to be achieving a new level of enthusiasm from younger readers.”

— Dermot Ross

HENDAYE, FR, August 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Two new books about Ernest Hemingway—one a novel and the other a biography—have been released earlier this summer. The first book, entitled “Hemingway’s Goblet,” is a debut novel by a New Zealand lawyer that will challenge readers’ perceptions about Ernest Hemingway and also modern relationships in the #MeToo era.

The second book is a biography by retired professor Curtis L. DeBerg. “Wrestling with Demons: In Search of the Real Ernest Hemingway” is a poignant and inspiring work that offers readers a deeply personal glimpse into Hemingway’s life journey, focusing on those things that haunted him most: parents, wives, pain, anguish and, in a surprisingly new twist on the Nobel prize-winning author, rivalry with others who were wounded in World War I.

Ross’s book has featured at the top of New Zealand bookseller lists in its first weeks following its release. An example of one of his reviews reads, “Hemingway’s Goblet is a fascinating debut novel blending historical fiction, adventure, psychological thriller, mystery, and romance. The story unfolds in London, England….This novel is of amazingly high quality, which is unusual for a debut. The unique storyline, the awesome intrigue, the perfectly balanced suspense, the sophisticated characters, the psychological depth, and the exhilarating travel adventures kept me turning pages.”

The book by DeBerg has also been met with early positive reviews. The Nonfiction Authors Associationawarded DeBerg a prestigious Gold Award. In presenting the award, the lead reviewer said, “This book was such a wonderfully informative and enjoyable read I didn’t want it to end. And it was hard to put down! I feel like DeBerg is very knowledgeable regarding all things Hemingway and as an author that does have so much knowledge about the subject, the book was absolutely amazing.”

Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He committed suicide in 1961 after spending several months in the Mayo Clinic’s psychiatric ward.

“Interest in Hemingway ebbs and flows, but he seems to be achieving a new level of enthusiasm from younger readers,” Ross said.

DeBerg added, “Ever since the Ken Burns documentary on PBS in 2021, membership in Hemingway groups on social media have been constantly growing.”

More information about Ross’s book can be found at https://www.maryegan.co.nz/books/hemingways-goblet-dermot-ross. It is available in paperback and eBook. His phone is +64 274 530 997.

DeBerg’s book can be found at http://curtdeberg.com. It is available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook on Amazon and other online retailers like Barnes & Noble and Walmart. He can be reached at +33 6 7226 1008 for interviews.

Curtis Lynn DeBerg
California State University (Retired)
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