News from Hemingway’s World

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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Author Fred Waitzkin says as a boy learning the ropes of big game fishing, he was “fired up by the Odyssean blue-water conquests of Ernest Hemingway.” Waitzkin writes a loving portrait of big-game fishing, with overtones of the demise of big-game fish, on outsideonline.com. 
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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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Photo courtesy Flickr user Elfer. Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon is asking the European Court of Human Rights to overturn his prosecution for looking into Franco-era crimes — the latest indication that the ghosts of the Spanish civil war are still alive in Spain. Garzon had launched a probe in the disappearance of tens of...
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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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