Tag Archives: ernest hemingway

What would Joe DiMaggio do? – Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Steve

After this blog’s one moment of international fame, I thought I’d make a brief return to the work of your friend and mine, Ernest Hemingway. So, to bring you up to speed on my Hemingway adventure, on the advice of this … Continue reading →

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The Great Gatsby – or is he?

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Steve

More often than not I will lay off the fiction when I’m choosing a book. For faintly ridiculous reasons, really. I like to know what’s really going on in the world, or has gone on in the world in the … Continue reading →

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On writing: The romance of the writer from Hemingway to Gladwell

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Steve

The first of my non-sporting posts on the blog, as trailed in my 100th post. Thank you for indulging me dear readers! I recently read the Ernest Hemingway book, A Moveable Feast. One thing that was so striking about it … Continue reading →

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