In a 1935 piece for Esquire magazine entitled Remembering Shooting-Flying: A Key West Letter, Ernest Hemingway listed seventeen books that were among his favorites. They were so dear to him that he would rather read any of them for the first time again than have a yearly income of a million dollars. (That's about $16.5 million/year in today's dollars.)Read the list here.
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Oct 30, 2012
Willingness to pay . . . to read certain books
Jul 5, 2012
Hemingway: To use or not to use
A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings [39], along with early drafts of other passages in the book.
May 14, 2012
Hemingway
INTERVIEWER
How much rewriting do you do?
HEMINGWAY
It depends. I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.More:
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
Everybody my age had written a novel and I was still having a difficult time writing a paragraph.Read more . . .
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