Posts Tagged ‘ Ernest Hemingway ’

Back before Hunter S. Thompson entered his Gonzo period, he wrote a thoughtful piece for the National Observer (May 25, 1964) titled “What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum?” (Find it in The Great Shark Hunt.) He writes: Anybody who considers himself a wrtier or even a serious reader cannot help but wonder just what it...
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Hemingway's Paris is not the Paris we know now. His Left Bank haunts are tres chic now, thanks in part to him and those of us who followed seeking out the cafe culture. The Paris he describes was anything but chic. Hemingway was then a sometimes penniless author, living off loans from Sylvia Beach,...
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