David Frey

I made my second Hemingway pitch yesterday.
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Where did Hemingway write A Moveable Feast? Where didn’t he. Here’s Mary Hemingway’s note at the intro: Ernest started writing this book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957, worked on it in Ketchum, Idaho, in the winter of 1958-59, took it with him to Spain when we were there in April 1959, and...
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Hemingway's Paris is not the Paris we know now. His Left Bank haunts are tres chic now, thanks in part to him and those of us who followed seeking out the cafe culture. The Paris he describes was anything but chic. Hemingway was then a sometimes penniless author, living off loans from Sylvia Beach,...
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I put down A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition and am left a sense of regret by Hemingway that I don't remember from the previous version. Is it how I remember it, or is it the changes Sean Hemingway made?
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These words may be the greatest clue into why Hemingway killed himself three months later.
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Can you judge a book by it’s cover? I finished reading the beautiful “restored edition” of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, edited by his grandson Sean and a touching forward by Hemingway’s son Patrick. But before I even get to the book, what struck me first about it was the cover. It is Hemingway’s...
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