Hemingway

pen4hire on December 1st, 2009

Destination: Northern Michigan
Book: The Nick Adams Stories, by Ernest Hemingway, arranged and foreword by Philip Young
Before the young writer’s Paris reflected in A Moveable Feast, or the Spanish Civil War and the love of bull fighting, Hemingway had Northern Michigan.

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pen4hire on November 23rd, 2009

Destination: The World

Books:

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

A GUEST POST by Shannon McKenna Schmidt, co-author of Novel Destinations.

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pen4hire on October 23rd, 2009

The restored edition of Moveable Feast points out that memoir can be fiction, too.

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pen4hire on July 22nd, 2009

The Sun Also Rises, the movie. Does it measure up to Hemingway’s book?

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pen4hire on July 22nd, 2009

Destinations: Spain and France
Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Happy Birthday Ernie! Ernest Hemingway was born 110 years ago on July 21. It seems appropriate to celebrate by talking about his first break-through novel,The Sun Also Rises which turns out to be a pretty good travel book.
From dissipated ennui in Paris to dissipated [...]

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pen4hire on July 14th, 2009

Destination: France
Book: Paris in the Moon by Adam Gopnik
I seem to be reading backward in time through my pile of French books. First I read A Sweet Life in Paris, released just this year and about an American in Paris in the present. I have just finished Paris in the Moon, published in 1999 about..well [...]

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