News from Hemingway’s World

“What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon in Paris than by learning the secret of the perfect cocktail from one of the world’s greatest barmen?” asks John Brunton, in the Financial Times. Off the top of my head, I can’t come up with a good answer. Brunton spends the day with Colin Peter...
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“Hemingway led a glamorous life filled with travel, adventure and famous people, but he always reserved a special place in his memory for the simple summers he’d spent up north.” Those are the words of writer John U. Bacon, who wrote a beautiful portrayal of Hemingway’s old stomping grounds on upper Michigan’s Walloon Lake...
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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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More on the Cold War over ending the Cold War with Cuba. This from the Associated Press. Cuban officials held a videoconference last week with American tour operators, touting the benefits that could come to U.S. tour companies if the the U.S. would drop the trade embargo. Their take: U.S. tourism companies are missing...
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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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