A short three minute biography of Hemingway on YOUTUBE
Please enjoy this short clip of Hemingway’s Life. Best, Christine https://youtu.be/0JQDe0GCNHg?t=176
Romance: Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich
Hemingway was a romantic. Sure, he was macho and tough and a man’s man in many ways, but he enjoyed women greatly and always had a close and loving relationship with Marlene Dietrich. One of Hemingway’s love letters to her is going up for auction. It is expected it will garner something in the vicinity […]
NO PAIN, NO GAIN Theory of Writing
I just read an article about writers who make themselves physically uncomfortable—perhaps consciously or unconsciously—as a spark to their creative juices. I wrote a blog post a couple of months ago about the strange writing habits of some writers and this is a variation on that theme. Below I will give you the cite for the […]
Happy Birthday, July 21, 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway
Hemingway Birthday Celebration at Stafford’s Perry Hotel By Carly Simpson on July 19, 2016 Tagged Events, History, Live Here, Travel Ideas, Vacation Photo by Stafford’s Perry Hotel Stafford’s Perry Hotel in Petoskey is hosting the second annual Ernest Hemingway Birthday Celebration. Hemingway fans will celebrate the beloved Northern Michigan author’s birthday at Stafford’s Perry Hotel […]
When More Is . . . More
Purple is not only highly coloured prose,” he wrote. “It is the world written up, intensified and made pleasurably palpable, not only to suggest the impetuous abundance of Creation, but also to add to it by showing – showing off – the expansive power of the mind itself … When the deep purple blooms, you […]
The Strange Writing Habits of Writers
November is National Writing Month, so today I muse about how some writers write. Ernest Hemingway’s first rule for writers was to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. But not all authors are able to survive with such a simple approach.http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/nov/14/lederer-good-time-to-reflect-art-of-writing/ Every writer has his/her own comfort place where […]
Film about Hemingway and his boat Captain, Gregorio Fuentes
Hemingway’s boat played an integral role in his story, and now its sister ship is in South Florida and ready to make her film debut.
Hemingway Exhibit at the Morgan Library/Museum Sept ’15-Jan 31 ’16
#Hemingwayexhibit Ernest Hemingway was a maker of lists and a collector of his life’s ephemera. For the first time, some of the objects that this American writer gathered during his long career — bullfighting stubs from Pamplona in Spain, boastful fishing logs from expeditions off the Cuban coast, coy letters to a mistress, penciled drafts […]
The Hemingway Cats in Key West
#Hemingwaycats. So, what could be controversial about some multi-toed cats living peacefully in Key West? Well a lot apparently. For four years the Hemingway Museum has been in litigation with the town which wanted the cats caged saying they exceeded limits and thus constituted an animal exhibit and needed to be licensed and caged. Hmm. […]