“You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”–Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway on Good Stuff
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Tag Archives: Ernest Hemingway
What Are You Reading in February?
What is on your end-of-winter book list? I’m finishing up preliminary work for my novella; as a result, I haven’t been able to devote too much time to reading. Here’s where I’m at this month…
Since 1st February, I’ve finished:
- Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk by John Doe with Tom DeSavia and Friends (Foreword by Billie Joe Armstrong)
I’m Currently Reading:
- Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond 1977-1981 by Liz Worth
- Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill
- The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Which book on your list do you most look forward to reading, and why?
Please share with me in the comments!
What Are You Reading in January?
What is on your book list, as the new year begins? Are you binge-reading your way into 2017, or taking a break from a well-read 2016? I’m off to a slow start, mostly because I am writing a novella of my own. Here’s where I’m at so far…
Since 1st January, I’ve finished:
- Beautiful Boredom: Idleness and Feminine Self-Realization in the Victorian Novel by Lee Anna Maynard
- Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M. M. Blume
Hemingway and Friends
Ernest Hemingway, with Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Richardson (Hemingway), Donald Ogden Stewart, and Pat Guthrie
I’m currently reading:
- Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude
- The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World’s Fair by Margaret Creighton
To be read by 31 January:
- Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time by Julia Markus
Which book on your list do you most look forward to reading, and why?
Please share with me in the comments!
Hemingway Quote
Ernest Hemingway Quote
[Book Nerd Links] Vonnegut, Hemingway, Smith and a Bookish Hotel
- Book and Bed [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Here’s What Kurt Vonnegut Can Teach You About Life [HUFFPOST BOOKS]
- Hemingway in Love [BOOKKEEPING]
- Patti Smith: What I’ve Learned [ESQUIRE]
Ernest Hemingway Quote and a Few Follow-Up Questions
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”-Ernest Hemingway
What does this mean to you?
Do you agree or disagree with Hemingway?
Why?
Discuss!
Hemingway Quote
Hemingway Quote
[Alternative Muses] Two Exits and an Entrance: Burns, Terry, and Hemingway
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”-Ernest Hemingway
“Eulogy is nice but one does not learn anything from it.”-Ellen Terry
“Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!”-Robert Burns
[Book Nerd Links] Three Fun Links for Your Reading Pleasure
- The 10 unhappiest marriages in fiction [courtesy The Telegraph]
- How to Make Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Burger [courtesy People]
- LEGO literature [courtesy Waterstones.com]
Writers Enjoying Winter, Part One
The Fitzgerald Family Celebrating Christmas
Ernest, Hadley, and Jack Hemingway in Schruns, Austria (1925)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle enjoying a ski holiday
Sylvia Plath and Marcia Brown Stern (courtesy Alumnae Association of Smith College)
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