The writer Mark Kurlansky, by a series of coincidences, spent his life as a journalist and author in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway, starting with his presence in Idaho on the day Hemingway died. Kurlansky would reside and work during his career in Paris, the Basque region of Spain, Cuba, and Ketchum, Idaho—all places where Hemingway lived, and where his myth remains firmly implanted and celebrated. Kurlansky struggled to free himself from the haunting presence of Hemingway, whose life—starting with the tales he told of being an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I—was a confusing blur of fact, exaggeration, hyperbole, and lies. There is much in Hemingway’s life and writing to admire, and much to reject. Mark Kurlansky joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his new book “The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway.”
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There was a great deal of correspondence between Hemingway & George Orwell in the latter's "Collected Essays, Letters & Journalism" published by Penguin in three parts 1970-1980. They might still be around. 🤔 (Green Fire, UK)
Yeah it was a miserable stringofevents
Hemingway was a small town news paper wrighter..if it wasn't for the help he got from Esra Pond.whom rewrote . Hemingways book Hemingway would have never been famous
Hemingway was a creative man in full celebration of freeborn manhood in its cultist apex. There is no negative criticism of him, if you hail from the same cult. Socialists, communists, social misfits and punks have no right to criticism. Who are they to do so, while enveloped inside the dimming, if not amoralistic light they stand in? I don't see the logic, personally.
When I was a kid my friend and I decided we were going to write a song. I remember he said turn on some music while we were brainstorming. I said wait you can't listen to music while trying to write music!
Only America could have produced Hemingway and not got the joke.
MR HEDGES IS RIGHT to write this book,because you may cause or begin a war when you need it,but must know that you can't STOP that when you like to stop it,even if you're dollar curence printer.
Hemmingway had a habit of re writing material many times till it pleased him it was terse enough. He is famous for that. With that kind of perfectionist mind it is easy to see how he got into lots of trouble over it. It also was a road sign on his path toward suicide. As a young writer, I almost worshiped this style of wring till I learned more about the man Ernest Hemingway. At some point however I came to a less flattering opinion of his writing. He was constantly replaying the most negative events in his life and fine tuning the expressions of painful nostalgia in his work. I eventuall discounted much of his work on a personal basis.
Soldier's home
This is why I love youtube warts and all
"Every human being that loves freedom owes to the Red Army more than he will be able to repay in a life time", Ernest Hemingway.
A relevant, formal education is the one that builds knowledge, skills, abilities… the cognitive and physical tools to live outside the proverbial box. We invest ourselves to break & parse data, observe & recognize patterns, learn & decipher code, allow perceptions and give conceptions. We crack X-files, we construct and tell stories. For a time-resistant education, likely, there may be no substitute.
"You ain't the first son-of-a-bitch to wake up out of their dream." — Nada
Do we take the headlong flight, to roll the bones… to be a new world man?
New Earth Army – GenX Battalion
That's all for now. Where's my helmet, I'm late for work. Yes, I'm a working man.
Thank you. I can't stand hemingway
When did Chris interview the Unabomber?
We live in the presence of the ghost of Tom Joad!
Kerouac was terrible in interviews as well. I think writers hear what they are about to write, not so much speak what they write. They are channeling something. Although Chris seems gifted at both.
Hey, the grandpa is even more boring than Hedges. That is unusual. Where did you find him?
Absolutely amazing, Chris! Thank you so much from Argentina!
This is such a great series!
Lesser writers denigrating a great writer. Read a Hemingway short story.