Hemingway Review Blog

The Hemingway Review blog shares information on topics relevant to Hemingway, his writings, and the study of his work. It’s a more casual, less serious space for playful pieces and personal reflections. We will consider videos, audio recordings, slide presentations, photographs, and short pieces of writing (generally 250-500 words). Reflections on teaching and discussions of popular culture are welcome. Please review the blog's submission guidelines and contact Lisa Tyler, blog editor, at lisa.tyler@sinclair.edu if you are interested in contributing to the blog. 

Peter Hays, 05/31/2017

A new conference quilt.

Peter Hays, 05/31/2017

Chicago Med "borrows" a plot from a Hemingway story.

Wayne Catan, 05/31/2017

Wayne Catan interviews 2017 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner for Homegoing.

Wayne Catan, 05/05/2017

Wayne Catan interviews Brigid Pasulka, 2010 PEN/Hemingway Award winner for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True.

Ron Berman, 05/05/2017

Ron Berman tackles Hemingway's France in this eighth installment of Books in the Background.

Wayne Catan, 04/13/2017

In this latest installment, Wayne Catan interviews Jane Hamilton, 1989 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner for The Book of Ruth.

Michael Von Cannon, 03/28/2017

News coordinator, Michael Von Cannon, interviews Justin Rice from Lit Charts about "What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?"

Ron McFarland, 03/10/2017

The University of Idaho celebrated its 8th annual Hemingway Festival.

Wayne Catan, 03/04/2017

Wayne Catan interviews 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner Kevin Powers.

Ron Berman, 02/09/2017

Ron Berman's latest post in his Books in the Background series tackles Hemingway's Europe.

Wayne Catan, 01/26/2017

Interview with Michael Dahlie, 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner for A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living

Peter Hays, 01/13/2017
My Tee-Shirt Collection (A video from Peter Hays)
I've been collecting tee-shirts for 30 years at Hemingway (and other author conferences) and never wearing them. My wife, Myrna, is a quilter, so the obvious solution was to put them into a quilt. We did not want a big quilt because we have no space for hanging it, the walls already covered with my wife's other quilts and paintings I've collected. Also, a  problem, for my artist wife, was that they were of different colors and didn't combine well. By limiting the selection to one color scheme and to a wall hanging size, a partial solution was achieved; but more tee-shirts remain for future debate. Neither of us being technically savvy, we had our son and grandson help us make the video. Extra credit for those of you who can identify the framed print in the background. 
Pete
Wayne Catan, 12/15/2016

In this new series of articles exclusive to The Hemingway Review Blog, Hemingway scholars will interview PEN/Hemingway Award winners to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the award.  

11/29/2016

The Fall 2016 issue of The Hemingway Review has been published.  This issue begins with a remarkable front cover, featuring an image from a booklet entitled “Don Ernesto en Pamplona” by Waldo Peirce.  The painter drafted this booklet after his memorable trip to Pamplona with Hemingway in 1927.  

John W. Berry, Virginia Cassin, and Scott Schwar, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, 10/24/2016

Tribute to John Edmonds Sanford

Wayne Catan, 10/16/2016
In this new series of articles exclusive to The Hemingway Review Blog, Hemingway scholars will interview PEN/Hemingway Award winners to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the award.  
 
The second piece in this series features blog contributor Wayne Catan interviewing 2011 winner Brando Skyhorse.  
Ron Berman, 10/10/2016

            Social histories of the twenties often account for opinions by referring to the response of groups to headline events. Many of these histories use familiar rubrics: the boom, the consumerism it induced, the moral and stylistic changes affecting different generations.  The "Introduction to the Volume" of  The Introduction concludes that Hemingway's letters and fiction are reliable evidence for the cost, nature, and value of things he observed. 

Wayne Catan, 09/14/2016
In this new series of articles exclusive to The Hemingway Review Blog, Hemingway scholars will interview PEN/Hemingway Award winners to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the award.  
 
The first piece in this series features blog contributor Wayne Catan interviewing 2016 winner Ottessa Moshfegh.   
Ron Berman, 08/05/2016

Michael Reynolds wrote in The Young Hemingway (1986) that “not long after the movie of Roosevelt's African hunt played Oak Park, the Hemingway family-reunion picture shows young Ernest in his safari costume standing at the edge of the smilers. At his side he holds a hat like the one Teddy wore.  In National Geographic, he devoured Roosevelt's account of the hunt, complete with pictures of dead animals and half-naked native women.  Roosevelt's book African Game Trails became a permanent part of Hemingway's library.”

Thomas Bevilacqua, 07/24/2016

Thomas Bevilacqua brings his series to a close with toasts and trivia!