Posts Tagged: Hemingway
While the Women Are Sleeping
Doppelgängers, ghosts, and philosophical riddles about the nature of identity make up Javier Marías’ new collection of short fictions.
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs had a great week — here’s some of what they have to say:
This is very cool. Check out The Underground Library, a community in which “books are given out to Members of the Library, who are asked to SIGN their name by the Due Date and PASS the book to someone who they think will like it..” (via)
Hemingway, Churchill fail computerized essay grading system.
...moreMorning Coffee
The Big Picture on the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Andreas Gursky‘s photographs of enormous scale.
More on Hemingway being a failed KGB spy. (bonus music link.)
Brooklynites are an ingenious sort. Case in point: a swimming pool made out of dumpsters.
...more“Why don’t you dance with her?”
In the Guardian, novelist Ewan Morrison — whose newest novel is called Ménage — tosses out a list of literary ménages à trois, leading off with the Hemingway erotic novel (some would call it an embarrassment that Hemingway never intended to publish) The Garden of Eden.
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