Hemingway
Want to track down the locales of a Portugal mystery so you can plan travel to Lisbon? Because so many readers were interested in the review of A Small Death in Lisbon, I am very happy to share some portions of the latest Pack A Book newsletter detailing locations discussed in that novel, and what they [...]
Destination: Paris Movie: Midnight in Paris (NEW 2011), written and directed by Woody Allen What a delicious confection of a movie. If you are craving a hearty boeuf Bourguignon of a movie, go elsewhere, but if a simple little meringue melting on your tongue sounds heavenly–this movie is the dish for you. But it may [...]
Destination: Nigeria Book: Things Fall Apart (1959) by Chinua Achebe You won’t learn here about today’s Africa, racked by wars in some parts and thriving on tourism in others. This is the Africa of the Africans, when outsiders were just beginning to encroach. Missionaries showed up (a white man–not an albino, someone says–riding an iron [...]
Destination: The World Books: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck A GUEST POST by Shannon McKenna Schmidt, co-author of [...]
The restored edition of Moveable Feast points out that memoir can be fiction, too.
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The Sun Also Rises, the movie. Does it measure up to Hemingway’s book?
Destinations: Spain and France Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Happy Birthday Ernie! Ernest Hemingway was born 110 years ago on July 21. It seems appropriate to celebrate by talking about his first break-through novel,which turns out to be a pretty good travel book. From dissipated ennui in Paris to dissipated blood [...]
Continue reading about The Sun Also Rises over Spain and France
Destination: France Book: Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik I seem to be reading backward in time through my pile of French books. First I read A Sweet Life in Paris, released just this year and about an American in Paris in the present. I have just finished Paris to the Moon, published in [...]
