“A Moveable Feast” Feud Takes a Nasty Turn

Bi-polar disorder! Severe alcoholism! Drug abuse! Transgender sexuality! Read all about it! Thanks to Thomas Lipscomb’s tabloid-styled Huffington Post column titled Fast Moves with A Moveable Feast, (07/26) the controversy over grandson Sean Hemingway’s restored edition of A Moveable Feast just took an unnecessary lurid turn. At first Lipscomb sticks to academics, but even then [...]

Ignorant Bloggers Jump on the “Feast” Train

  Valerie Palmer is a contributing editor to Planet magazine and she blogs at The Slog. Two days ago, Valerie contributed a blog posting regarding the reissue of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Vladimir Nabokov’s posthumous novel, The Original of Laura in a dateline she titled Literary and Scary. Valerie writes: The Nabokov situation frightens [...]

Matthew Shaer on the Hotchner Affair

  In a 07/26/09 LA Times review of Scott Donaldson’s book Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Work and Days, Matthew Shaer remarks: According to A.E. Hotchner, a friend of Hemingway’s, the author had all but finished “A Moveable Feast” at his death. Furthermore, Hotchner argues, Mary “had very little involvement with the book.” A new edition is, [...]

Hotchner Op-Ed Actionable?

Op-Eds usually fall into the category of protected speech — you are, after all, reading one man or woman’s opinion that you are free to take with a grain of salt. But Hemingway biographer A.E. Hotchner’s New York Times Op-Ed on the release of the revised edition of A Moveable Feast (masterfully edited by Sean [...]

Rockville

Our discussion this week on the release of the revised edition of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast — and A.E. Hotchner’s deplorable op-ed for the New York Times — somehow became a dicussion of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in the comments. This morning, Geoff Schutt added the following words: Rodger, this Friday, July 24, is Zelda [...]