News from Hemingway’s World

“What is needed in bullfighting to-day,” Hemingway wrote, “is a complete bullfighter who is at the same time an artist to save it from the specialists … What it needs is a god to drive the half-gods out. But waiting for a messiah is a long business …” Bullfighting may have that messiah now...
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When Ev and Susan Diehl took over a historic inn in Cody, Wyo., they found plenty of clutter in the basement, and a few treasures hidden amid it. One of them was Ernest Hemingway’s signature on the guest registry. He signed in on Oct. 16, 1932. “It was here that Hemingway mailed the final...
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When Hemingway was trolling the Gulf for big fish, Bimini was one of his top stops, and the the Bimini Game Club was top of the itinerary. Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts have reopened the club, and with help from Hemingway descendants, remodeled it in Hemingway style.
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Hemingway’s home in Cuba has been suffering from decades of neglect in the tropical heat. But CNN reports that Cuba is working to protect the home, with some help from Americans, including the granddaughter of Hemingway’s longtime editor, Max Perkins, and Bob Vila, a guy who knows a thing or two about old houses. “It’s...
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Paris’s cafe culture is mobbed with tourists. The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting. But nowhere are the changes to Hemingway’s world more obvious than in the Caribbean, where global warming is changing the waterways he used to fish and threatening to drown the islands he used to explore. Diplomats from 43 island nations are...
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This may be the most revolutionary thing to come out of Cuba since, well, since the revolution. President Raul Castro is calling for a communist party congress in April, reports the BBC, and it seems like an opening up of private enterprise is on the table. “The sixth Congress will concentrate on solving problems...
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