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Jan 6, 2020 - 5:52 AM
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Howard L
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...nada pues nada...
Hamill, 25-26, a newbie at the Post:
"At about seven-thirty on the morning of July 2, 1961, in his home in Ketchum, Idaho, Ernest Hemingway put a twelve-gauge shotgun under his jaw and pulled the trigger. The news was smothered for most of the morning. I heard the first bulletin early that afternoon, while watching the Dodgers play the Phillies on television. I was shaken to the core. Hemingway was still the great bronze god of American literature, the epitome of the hard-drinking macho artist. But since the day in the navy when I first read Malcolm Cowley's introduction to the Viking collection of Hemingway’s work, he had been one of my heroes. No other word could describe him: his writing, his life, his courage, his drinking, were all part of the heroic image. Suicide was not. Suicide, I believed at the time, was the choice of a coward.
But I had little time to mourn Hemingway or even question his motives. The telephone rang. It was [Editor] Paul Sann.
Get your ass down here, he said. Hemingway knocked himself off, and I want you and Aronowitz to write a series."
"We began working that afternoon in an empty back office. Aronowitz knew almost nothing about Hemingway; I knew almost too much. So we divided the work. I stayed one installment ahead of him, laying out the newspaper clippings, the relevant passages in biographies and monographs, marking passages in Hemingway’s own work that were relevant to the installment. We shared the reporting tasks, calling people all over the country who had known Hemingway. Aronowitz did most of the writing. When he finished each installment, I’d go back over the copy, filling in blanks, cutting statements that seemed ludicrous, trying to separate the myth from the facts. We finished installments near six in the morning, two hours before the deadline.
When it was over, I knew a lot more about writing. Aronowitz was a generous man, showing me what he was doing and why, passing on his hatred of platitude and cliché. And I’d gone more deeply than ever before into Hemingway. I saw his writing mannerisms more clearly, his personal posturing. Some of it was embarrassing. But I had learned that it was possible to be a great writer and an absolute asshole at the same time. None of us knew then how terrible Hemingway’s final years had been and the extent to which alcohol had contributed to his anguished decline. It was right there on the pages. I just didn’t choose to see it."
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Jan 13, 2020 - 10:10 AM
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Jim Phelps
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After over a year since the previous volume, the Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 5 is due for publication in July, 2020. I've barely read the first four volumes, but when I do it is always great reading. Many authors' letters are dull affairs--even you, Hunter S. Thompson--but Hemingway's missives are often wonderful, with the tough, caustic humor I appreciate.
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/literary-texts/letters-ernest-hemingway-19321934-volume-5?format=HB&isbn=9780521897372
"The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take Nothing. During this intensely active period, Hemingway hunts in Arkansas and Wyoming, fishes the waters off Key West and Cuba, revisits Madrid and Paris, and undertakes a long-anticipated African safari. He witnesses transitions at home and abroad: the deepening Great Depression, Prohibition-era rumrunning, revolution in Cuba, and political unrest in Spain. His readership and celebrity continue to expand as he begins writing for the new men's magazine Esquire. As the volume ends, Hemingway has just acquired his beloved boat, Pilar. The letters detail these events as well as his relationships with his family, friends, publishers, critics and literary contemporaries including editor Maxwell Perkins, Archibald MacLeish, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Together the letters paint an intimate self-portrait of this multi-faceted, self-confident, energetic artist in his prime.
"Volume 5 provides accurate transcriptions of all located Hemingway letters written from January 1932 to May 1934
"Of the 392 letters, some eighty-five percent are appearing in print for the first time
"Features a scholarly introduction, extensive annotations and editorial apparatus which includes a roster of correspondents, a chronology of the artist's life to reveal his relationships and activities, and maps of the far-flung places that figure in his letters of this period
"Contains over forty images including Hemingway's own drawings and contemporary advertisements as well as photographs and facsimiles of letters"
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But that Key West connection--luv it. 