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Required Reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is one of my favorite books, period. It is amazingly written and one of the great American novels.
Authors [VENN DIAGRAM]
Jimmy Chen, creator of the diagram, explains the categories: I think of all writing being from the head (pros: cerebral, conceptual; cons: didactic, dry), the mouth (pros: language, poetics; cons: empty banter, pure form), and the heart (pros: empathic, intimate; cons: sentimental, emotional) .
Circles Of Influence [ILLUSTRATION]
Hemingway, Party Animal [GALLERY]
Ernest Hemingway on The Art of Fiction [INTERVIEW]
HEMINGWAY
You go to the races?
INTERVIEWER
Yes, occasionally.
HEMINGWAY
Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.
Hemingway Had Reason To Be Paranoid
EARLY one morning, 50 years ago today, while his wife, Mary, slept upstairs, Ernest Hemingway went into the vestibule of his Ketchum, Idaho, house, selected his favorite shotgun from the rack, inserted shells into its chambers and ended his life.
There were many differing explanations at the time: that he had terminal cancer or money problems, that it was an accident, that he’d quarreled with Mary. None were true. As his friends knew, he’d been suffering from depression and paranoia for the last year of his life. Read the rest at New York Times.
