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 [...]

“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, [...]

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 [...]