Finally …

Welcome back to another thrilling episode of “As the Feast Turns.” We finally have a balanced review of the restored edition of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Stuart Mitchner’s piece for Town Topics, Princeton’s weekly community paper, is thoughtful and without bias but not without his own criticisms of the text. One of the most important [...]

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 [...]

Questions Linger in Hotchner NYT Op-Ed

(Part One: The American Situation Where a Man Has to Be a Winner) UPDATED BELOW The biggest question, of course, is why the New York Times ran a noted Hemingway biographer’s rant in an Op-Ed on the eve of the release of The Revised Version of A Moveable Feast. My best guess (as a former [...]

From the Bureau of Useless Information, Hemingway Division

According to the Encylopedia Vegasana, a blackjack hand totalling 21 that consists of a six, a seven, and an eight is referred to as Ernest Hemingway Becomes a Man. While you’re figuring out how to compartmentalize that bit of useless knowledge in your brain, consider the following from the UK Guardian online: Last week … [...]