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Slate’s ‘Hang Up and Listen’ Totally Lacks 20-20 Heinz Sight
The hardworking staff yields to no man in our admiration and respect for Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin, hosts of the excellent Hang Up and Listen podcast. But we feel compelled to take issue with last week’s edition in which … Continue reading
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Tagged “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!”, Bill Littlefield, David Halberstam, Eddie Arcaro, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Hang Up and Listen, John Swansburg, Josh Levin, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Kram Jr., New Journalism, New York Times, Pete Reiser, Slate, Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, The Man They Padded the Walls For, The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, W.C. Heinz, William Faulkner
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WSJ Piece Has 20-20 Heinz Sight
The hardworking staff is a longtime fanboy of the great W.C. Heinz – a superb WWII war correspondent and perhaps the greatest American sportswriter of the 20th Century (not to mention the co-author of M*A*S*H). (Our WGBH Heinz obit here.) Now comes … Continue reading
Martha Gellhorn’s Excellent 1947 American Adventure
Martha Gellhorn was much more than just another ex-wife of Ernest Hemingway. She was a superb war correspondent, an accomplished novelist, and a perceptive analyst of post-World War II America. (See Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center for further … Continue reading
NYT’s Jim Brosnan Obit Lacks Heinz-Sight
Jim Brosnan, a baseball-hurler-turned-word-twirler, died last week, as the New York Times noted yesterday. From the estimable Bruce Weber’s obit: Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief … Continue reading
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Correction o’ the Day (At Play in the Fields of the Times Edition)
The prolific author Peter Matthiessen died last week and the obituaries came fast and, in some cases, loose. From Wednesday’s New York Times Corrections: FRONT PAGE An obituary in some editions on Sunday and in early editions on Monday about … Continue reading
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Tagged At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Bitcoins, Dog Soldiers, Ernest Hemingway, Far Tortuga, George Plimpton, Goodreads, Hotchkiss School, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, New York Times, Peter Matthiessen, Roger Stone, St. Bernard's, The Old Man and the Sea, Viking Press
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NYT’s Boston Hemingway Piece Features Wrong Wife
Ernest Hemingway is the Moveable Feast of American literature. And the latest entrée comes from Tuesday’s New York Times. A Mutable Feast Batch of Hemingway Ephemera From Cuba Is Digitized BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway was a hoarder. His own prose … Continue reading
NYT’s Revisionist History Re: IHT
Smart Sam Roberts piece in Thursday’s New York Times about the pending demise of the International Herald Tribune brand. Fondly Recalling a ‘Writer’s Paper’ as a Name Goes Away Ghostly vestiges of the gothic Herald Tribune logo still survive on … Continue reading
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Tagged Breathless, Dick Schaap, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I.H.T., International Herald Tribune, International New York Times, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jimmy Breslin, New York Times, Pete Hamill, Red Smith, Sam Roberts, takeover, Tom Wolfe, Washington Post
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The Courage Of Female War Correspondents
It’s never been easy for female war correspondents, but in the 20th century they mostly went unassailed in the course of their reporting (except for Martha Gellhorn, who actually had more to fear from Ernest Hemingway than the Spanish fascists or … Continue reading
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