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My name is David Frey, and I'm a freelance journalist following in the footsteps of Hemingway, looking for lessons about the world then and now. I hope you enjoy it. For more about me, visit my website www.davidmfrey.com.
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“The current pop culture obsession with all things Ernest Hemingway.” That’s how USA Today...
Hemingway was famous for his short, terse sentences. His journalistic style is often said...
Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía...
“My loving you is a chink in the armour of telling the world to...
Jerónimo Barquero was not in Teruel when it was being bombed. When nationalist forces seized Teruel, he sneaked from his home disguised as a woman and joined the Loyalist army. He was 16, one of those young faces Orwell saw in Aragon. At 90, he was one of the few civil war veterans still...
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“I can’t handle the emotion of this,” a woman was saying as she accepted the remains of her father, “so many years being with the fascists trampling over us, insulting us, and it’s still going on. It’s still going on.” The ceremony was already in process when we arrived. We rented a car and...
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In 2000, Silva, a journalist, had left his magazine job and began to write a novel about his grandfather. He started interviewing people who knew him. One man, a childhood friend, was the brother of the man who escaped that night. The two set off to find the grave. “In this town, there are...
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This is the story of his grandfather that Emilio Silva has managed to piece together. Emilio Silva Faba was born in 1894 into a family of farmers in the village of Pareje, in northwest Spain. At 21, he left for the Americas, first Argentina, then New York, then Connecticut. Had fate been kind, he...
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These days, it’s hard to find evidence the Spanish Civil War ever happened. Battlefield tours don’t meander through Madrid. Towns that Franco’s forces carpet-bombed have been rebuilt. When Franco died in 1975, he returned the country to the king, who returned it to democracy. With Franco gone, his 40-year dictatorship shamed supporters into silence....
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“The current pop culture obsession with all things Ernest Hemingway.” That’s how USA Today describes the whirlwind success of...
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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...
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Just because Ernest Hemingway has been dead for 50 years doesn’t mean people have stopped writing about him. Now...
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True confession: I’m not a regular Town and Country reader, but when I heard about the Hemingway spread in...
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“Here’s what I like,” Ernest Hemingway said to his son Patrick, nicknamed Mouse, then a sophomore at Harvard. Accompanied...
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Home repair guru Bob Vila recently blogged about his work rehabilitating Hemingway’s Finca Vigía property in Cuba.
“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....
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.
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.
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...
