Make Your Lives Extraordinary: 5 Influential Literary Cliques
As this list suggests, we're long overdue for a new witty social literary pack. Who's in?(READ MORE)
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Ernest Hemingway
The Strange Case of Harper Lee: A Look Back at Contested Manuscripts
Is Harper Lee happy with the decision to publish the 'source material' to Mockingbird? Or is she being gently manipulated? If it's the latter, it wouldn't be without precedent. Here are 4 other novels that raised questions about their authors’ intentions.(READ MORE)
Rocking the Globes with Amy and Tina, and More
In the news this week, funny ladies Amy Poehler and Tina Fey kill it at the Globes; "The Imitation Game" goes home empty-handed but that's as good a reason as any to revisit The Enigma; Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, Mariel, writes a memoir; and the biography we need is finally happening: Ruth Bader...(READ MORE)
6 Cafes Turned Literary Landmarks, Thanks to Hemingway, Kerouac, et al
Once you’ve paid homage to Dorothy Parker's circle of pals and spirits at The Algonquin, check out some of these equally literary watering holes around the world.(READ MORE)
Happy Hemingway Days: A Look Back at Ernest Hemingway’s Influences
'Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work,' a recent book by Nancy W. Sindelar, provides context for the upcoming zaniness of Hemingway Days in Key West, FL. (READ MORE)
On Fantasy Beyond Facts and The Uses of Enchantment
In Bruno Bettelheim’s endlessly fascinating The Uses of Enchantment, he reminds reader to look beyond reality.(READ MORE)
In 1956, Norman Mailer Backed Ernest Hemingway for the American Presidency
Norman Mailer was many things: a man of letters, a fighter both figuratively and literally, a Pulitzer-prize winning author, and -- in this excerpt -- a political pundit, arguing why Ernest Hemingway should become president in the 1956 presidential elections.(READ MORE)
Read Me Like a Book: 7 Must-Read Memoirs for Book Lovers
For avowed bookworms, the next best thing to a shiny new paperback is a lively conversation with a fellow reader about books. The next best thing to that conversation? The roundup of reading memoirs we've collected here.(READ MORE)
Alcohol and Creativity: A Journey to Understand Addiction in the Lives of 6 Great Writers
Olivia Laing is on a personal and literary quest in The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, which follows the influence of alcohol in the lives of John Berryman, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. (READ MORE)
The Paris Review Interviews Boxed Set Quiz
Befriend, or at the very least, begin to understand some of your favorite writers as they present themselves in the pages if The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. I-IV, then take this quiz to find out how well you know them.(READ MORE)
