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Category: Hemingway

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Stop Misquoting Leonard Cohen and Ernest Hemingway. Start Listening and Reading.

12 Jan 201711 Sep 2023
The world breaks every one... or does it? Consider the misquote. It lies in that same realm as citing fake news or reading only the headline. Misquoting is certainly nothing new,…
Bale…

The Best Moby-Dick Homages, Adaptations, and Celebrations

14 Nov 20166 May 2023
Note: this article has been updated since it was first published. Happy Birthday, Moby-Dick! Not the whale, but the book. 165 years ago today, Herman Melville's epic novel was published…
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Why Everyone Should Calm Down and Take Vonnegut’s Approach to Talking about Big Game Hunting

30 Jul 201526 Sep 2016
People love to shame these days. They also love to shame the shamers. And with the tendency for the internet to get hysterical about anything that seems worthy of hysteria,…
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Six Things Hemingway Never Said

10 Jul 201512 Jan 2017
The internet loves a good quote. Trouble is, the internet rarely cares if the quote was said by the person whose name follows it. It also rarely cares if the…
A Game of Thrones…

The Snow Also Rises 2: Jon Snows of Kilimanjaro

21 Oct 20144 Nov 2014
Note: This is a follow-up to The Snow Also Rises, the previous post on this blog.  Read that before you read this.   During a recent Q&A, one of the…
A Game of Thrones…

The Snow Also Rises: Thoughts Regarding Ned Stark, Jon Snow, and Jake Barnes

17 Oct 201428 Oct 2014
 Note: The following contains "spoilers" for the novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.  Some of these spoilers are based on details that did not make it…
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Hemingway Against The Oxford Comma

28 Jan 201222 Aug 2023
There is a new meme out there (well, perhaps it's not new, but it is all over Facebook.)  This meme encourages people to use the Oxford Comma. And while I…
Hemingway…

10 Things That Would Have Ruined Midnight in Paris

17 Jun 201125 Oct 2014
Do Not Read This Unless You've Seen Midnight in Paris. Why?  Because this isn't a review of Midnight in Paris.  It's a recap of why I liked it so much,…

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