Cuba

Questions from two people within twenty-four hours had me looking up the exquisite interview George Plimpton did with Hemingway for the Paris Review on The Art of Fiction. I find myself feeling more for Plimpton in this testy interview at Hemingway’s Finca Vigia in Cuba. Hemingway made no secret he was bored of the...
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The recent HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn is just one reminder that Ernest Hemingway is still alive and well, at least in the public consciousness. Here’s a remarkable stop-motion video of Dutch Artist Marcel Schindler illustrating Hemingway’s classic The Old Man and the Sea.
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Hemingway was famous for his short, terse sentences. His journalistic style is often said to have changed, and defined American writing. But …
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Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía property in Cuba.
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“My loving you is a chink in the armour of telling the world to go to hell and you can thrust a sword into it at any time,” Hemingway wrote to Hadley Richardson, the woman he was courting and who soon would be his (first) wife. It’s a rare surviving exchange between the two....
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A toast to liquid diplomacy! The Atlantic reports that the Cuban Interest Section (which would under normalized circumstances be called the Cuban Embassy) in Washington, D.C. is opening Hemingway’s Bar on Oct. 6, an invitation-only joint that, because Americans are forbidden from giving money to Cubans, will offer free drinks.  
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