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May 28, 2012 1:33 PM

The Hemingway Papers: The legendary writer’s reporting from the Toronto Star archives, featuring historical annotations by William McGeary, a former editor who researched Hemingway’s columns extensively for the newspaper, along with new insight and analysis from the Star’s team of Hemingway experts.
posted by Fizz (13 comments total)

For those with access to such things, HBO Films' Hemmingway & Gellhorn will be premiering tonight. Starring Nichole Kidman and Clive Owen, amongst others, directed by Phillip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Quills).
posted by hippybear at 1:39 PM on May 28, 2012

This looks great—thanks for posting it.
posted by languagehat at 1:43 PM on May 28, 2012

Hemingway was way ahead of y'all with The Torrents of Spring
posted by chavenet at 2:31 PM on May 28, 2012 [1 favorite]

Hemingway on Toronto (to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas): "What bothers me is why with my fine intelligence I ever came out here."
posted by Beardman at 2:49 PM on May 28, 2012 [2 favorites]

Trying to locate the above quote also took me to "Toronto Quotes" on Brainyquote.com, which includes such nuggets as this:

"I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC."
- Paula Abdul

(That's like the "Hi...we're in Delaware" of my city.)
posted by Beardman at 2:51 PM on May 28, 2012

Is there an easy way to ebook this?
posted by The White Hat at 3:07 PM on May 28, 2012

Mod note: Folks maybe if you don't mean to derail, wait until the thread has progressed a little before making your derailing comments?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:47 PM on May 28, 2012

HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn celebrates the cult of Ernest even as it laments his descent into self-caricature.
posted by homunculus at 4:24 PM on May 28, 2012

Hemingway kinda self-derailed in himself. His whole ethos is a perfectly fake celebration of macho bullshit, which he himself knows is hollow in the core...
posted by ovvl at 7:05 PM on May 28, 2012

...and that's what makes him interesting.
posted by ovvl at 7:07 PM on May 28, 2012

hippybear! I worked on that movie! Watching it right now with gingerbeer and rtha. As a friend said during the filming: I got to throw rubble on Nicole Kidman's boobs--it was a good day.
posted by mollymayhem at 10:10 PM on May 28, 2012

I just found out yesterday that the JFK Library has a large collection of Hemingway papers, from Cuba and elsewhere.
posted by LeLiLo at 11:48 PM on May 28, 2012

Thanks, I love Hemingway, and this should be interesting to dig through.
posted by Stagger Lee at 7:55 AM on May 29, 2012