Hemingway in the News

“Fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, history’s ultimate man,” says author Marty Beckerman, “and young males today—obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, and Nintendo—know nothing about his legendary brand of rugged, alcoholic masculinity. They cannot skin a fish, dominate a battlefield, or transform majestic creatures of the Southern Hemisphere into piano keyboards.”
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An East Tennessee auction house is selling off what it says are some 150 items related to Ernest Hemingway, including some never-before-seen photographs of the author in Spain during “the Dangerous Summer.”
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The 50th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death arrives July 2, and for most Hemingway societies, it will pass without notice.
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Actor Corey Stoll says he prepared for the role of Ernest Hemingway in the new Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris by taking his own magical trip into the past. He fired up A Farewell to Arms on his iPod, he told the Washington Post’s Express Night Out, and started walking.
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Woody Allen’s latest film Midnight in Paris mopped up gushing reviews from Cannes, opening up Hemingway’s Paris to a new audience of moviegoers. (See the trailer here.) I’d warn about spoilers, but the Hemingway cat has been out of the bag since the reviews started to roll out. Owen Wilson stars as a struggling...
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For 50 years, its whereabouts has been a mystery, writes Christopher Baker, but the mystery may be solved. Hemingway’s 1955 Chrysler seems to have appeared. Somehow, Baker writes, the Chrysler New Yorker DeLuxe ended up in the hands of Hemingway’s driver, and then, mysteriously, into the hands of the government, which has moved the...
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