“The only time Hemingway cried over alcohol: When Congress made it illegal during Prohibition. But he pulled himself together, as a man does always, and traveled to Paris, as a man does seldom. There Papa committed to a life of glorious, full-throttle chemical dependence alongside ‘The Great Gatsby’ author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who said, ‘First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.’”
—Salon has an excerpt of Marty Beckerman’s new satirical book on Ernest Hemingway’s life, The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within…Just Like Papa!
