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Heart of Boredom: Conrad Landlocked In Static, Stingy New Biography

THE SEVERAL LIVES OF JOSEPH CONRAD By John Stape Pantheon, 369 pages, $30 Asked by Ford Maddox Ford to contribute to a memorial supplement to the Transatlantic Review in honor of the recently deceased...

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Gillian Anderson to Play War Journalist, Hemingway's Ex Gellhorn

Gillian Anderson is all about Martha Gellhorn, a war reporter who covered conflicts for 60 years. As a correspondent for Collier's Weekly, she reported on the Spanish Civil War, along with her future...

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Papa, Mac and Barack

“For a long time, Robert Jordan was the man I admired above almost all others in life and fiction,” John McCain wrote a few years ago about the doomed guerrilla hero of his favorite novel, Ernest...

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Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading

A bonus from Blake Bailey’s Cheever (Knopf, $35): When William Faulkner won the Nobel prize in 1949, Cheever amused himself by imagining what Hemingway would have to say about it: “I think it’s fine...

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At Auction Today: Novel About Hemingway’s First Wife Hadley Richardson

Literary agent Julie Barer is auctioning a novel today by the author Paula McLain written from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson.  Richardson, who was born to a...

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E-Readers Encourage Book Consumption, Even on Kayaks

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Marketing and Research Resources study of Kindle, iPad and Sony Reader owners—ahem, paid for by Sony—indicates that these electronic libraries are somehow...

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Papa Hemingway Died 50 Years Ago

Hemingway. On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway bid farewell to the world. We intend to honor him tomorrow with a "Hemingway breakfast" (two bottles of red wine and a steak) and by perusing internet...

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Let's Celebrate Hemingway's Birthday With His Great-Granddaughter Dree

Dree, wearing sunglasses. Ernest Hemingway was born 112 years ago today. To celebrate, we've been drinking grappa out of a calfskin flask, hunting gazelles, and contemplating the savage grace of war...

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It's Fashion Week in the Eight-Day Week

Anna Wintour, Fashion's Night Out's hostess (Patrick McMullan) Wednesday, September 7 Reever Madness They’re making another Superman flick with some British gent—don’t they know that for screen...

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Hemingway on HBO, Fitzgerald on Film: Is There a Lost Generation Boom?

Last summer's Midnight in Paris took as its subject a young writer given the tremendous opportunity to meet his literary idols--the writers of the expatriate clique, including Gertrude Stein, F. Scott...

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