Hemingway in the News

Sure, I’m walking in Hemingway’s footsteps, but it would be a lot easier to walk in his shoes. Thomas Raymond & Co. has released a line of Hemingway-inspired shoes. These are shoes inspired by Papa and by Papa’s places. Slip on the Sun Valley. Pull on the Petoskey. “Styles that pay tribute to his...
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One more big Hollywood picture could feature Hemingway. The latest is a biopic on the legendary editor Max Perkins, who helped shape the words of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Word is, Sean Penn is in talks for the lead role in the film, called Genius. “Who gets to be Hemingway?”...
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A couple exciting Hemingway film projects are on tap. On the big screen, Anthony Hopkins is cast to star as Papa alongside Andy Garcia in the upcoming film Hemingway & Fuentes. The film, which also stars Annette Bening,  chronicles ‘Hemingway’s life in Cuba and his friendship with his fisherman Gregorio Fuentes, inspiration for the...
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In a thought-provoking piece, the Christian Science Monitor notes that even as Catalonia has banned bullfighting, Hemingway is still regarded as the sport’s champion. “What would Ernest Hemingway say?” asks writer Marjorie Kehe. “The American author has long been identified with the violent tradition, which he celebrated as a glorious display of courage. Even...
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This comes from Escambray, a digital newspaper from Cuba: In a press conference offered Tuesday by Commodore of the Cuban International Nautical Club Jose Miguel Díaz at the Hemingway Marina, he noted that the traditional event is dedicated to the American writer and stressed that Hemingway has become a symbol of fraternal relations between...
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I just came across this great 2008 interview of Patrick Hemingway by NPR’s Scott Simon for Patrick Hemingway’s 80th birthday. Here it is.
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