Ernest Hemingway

Straight On Through*

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You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless -there is only one thing to do with a novel [or anything important**] and that is go straight on through to the end of the damn thing. Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald in a 1929 letter from France, courtesy the New … Read more

Speaking of Weird… Selection

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So, if there were a “Literary Scale of Literary Weirdness,” how would today’s responses to today’s controversial prompt measure against it? Well, to answer that question, I suppose we first need a “Literary Scale of Literary Weirdness” for which to measure them against. Well, since I’m the one “with the ball,” so to speak in … Read more