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Finding My Hemingway "Finding My Hemingway" is about my journey to find my voice as a writer and a poet through literature, photography, travel, and self-discovery.

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fish...
10/13/2026

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean.

"The finest story of the outdoors in American literature."
- Sports Illustrated.

A century after its publication in the collection In Our Time, "Big Two-Hearted River" has helped shape language and literature in America and around the world, and its magnetic pull still draws readers, writers, and critics. The story is one of the earliest examples of Ernest Hemingway's now-familiar writing style: short sentences, punchy nouns and verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a seductive cadence. Easy to imitate, difficult to match. The story's subject has inspired generations of writers to believe that vivid nature writing and the art of fly fishing can be literature.

The journey within...“Growing up in the internationally loved city of New Orleans, with all its delicious food, unique m...
10/12/2026

The journey within...

“Growing up in the internationally loved city of New Orleans, with all its delicious food, unique music, and its eccentric and sometimes backward culture, I realized early on that I wanted to get out and see the rest of the world.”

Jeffrey Pipes Guice worked for years in New Orleans, Washington D.C., and New York City but still found time to journey worldwide. He traversed Europe, Asia, and Africa and even found time to observe penguins in Antarctica. He also spent time visiting exciting cities like Jerusalem, Havana, Yemen, Argentina, and Phuket, all searching for purpose. The only place Guice never set out to discover was inside himself.

His fifth book, “Finding My Hemingway” is his journey through travel, literature, photography, and self-discovery.

Poetry and short stories are mixed into this collection of lyrical works, which express the excitement of his learning and insights gained from his lifetime of travel, adventure, and literature — sprinkled with a bit of locally seasoned introspection.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/finding-my-hemingway-jeffrey-pipes-guice/1143816364


If only Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter could talk. When you add up all of the words from five of his top novels, which is...
10/09/2026

If only Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter could talk. When you add up all of the words from five of his top novels, which is around 375,000 words combined, this typewriter would have a lot more to say.

The Old Man and the Sea: 26,601 words
The Sun Also Rises: 67,707 words
A Farewell to Arms: 74,240 words
For Whom the Bell Tolls: 174,106 words
A Moveable Feast: 35,908

Hemingway’s Key West office where he secluded himself to write. The typewriter on the table is the one he carried into N...
10/09/2026

Hemingway’s Key West office where he secluded himself to write. The typewriter on the table is the one he carried into Normandie on D-Day.

These words reflect the spirit Hemingway carried throughout his life—a belief in living boldly, speaking honestly, and e...
10/09/2026

These words reflect the spirit Hemingway carried throughout his life—a belief in living boldly, speaking honestly, and embracing beauty even when the world felt harsh.
It is a reminder of the values that shaped not only his writing but the way he saw the world, with courage, clarity, and an unwavering sense of what matters.

Defeat is not failure.“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” – Ernest Heming...
10/09/2026

Defeat is not failure.

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
– Ernest Hemingway

True strength lies in endurance, not victory.

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1952. It is one of his most famous...
10/09/2026

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1952. It is one of his most famous works and earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. It also contributed to him winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

The story follows Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without catching a fish. People in his village think he’s unlucky, but a young boy named Manolin, who once fished with him, still believes in him.

On the 85th day, Santiago sails far into the Gulf Stream and hooks a giant marlin, possibly the biggest fish he has ever seen. What follows is an epic three-day struggle between the old man and the mighty fish. Santiago respects the marlin deeply, calling it his "brother in the struggle", but he must still kill it to prove his skill and survival.

After finally killing the marlin and tying it to his boat, sharks attack and eat the fish’s flesh during the return journey. Santiago fights them off bravely, but by the time he gets home, only the marlin’s skeleton remains. Exhausted and defeated, he returns to his shack, where Manolin promises to fish with him again.

Themes:
Struggle and endurance

Pride and dignity in defeat

Man vs nature

Isolation and companionship

The meaning of success

Tone:
Simple, poetic, and deeply symbolic.

Hemingway’s writing is known for its minimalism, and this novel shows how a simple story can carry deep emotional and philosophical weight.

The Centennial Continues…
10/06/2026

The Centennial Continues…

The Mysterious Never-Happened Meeting of Ernest Hemingway and George OrwellBoth were legends of their time. Both partici...
10/05/2026

The Mysterious Never-Happened Meeting of Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell

Both were legends of their time.
Both participated in the Spanish Civil War.
Both loved Paris.

So why did these two legends never meet in life? Or did they?
In an essay by Orwell (Old Bookshop Memories) and in "Keep the Aspidistra Flying," Orwell specifically mentions Hemingway's books on the bookshelves.
Also, he reads Hemingway.

Hemingway, on the other hand, was also interested in Orwell and spoke highly of him. When Hemingway was asked to write a review of "Homage to Catalonia," which was posthumously published, he voiced his deep respect for Orwell as a man and a writer. However, he declined because he was wary of politics and didn't want to write anything about such a political book.

Yet Hemingway and Orwell were best sellers, and their masterpieces are still ranked as classics today.
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "Homage to Catalonia" were both written during the Spanish Civil War, though in completely different ways.

Yet the question arises: did they ever meet?
I wonder what it would be like if it ever could happen!

Let it be the Romance of Literature!
For us, we have their books to dream of!

Pic: Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell, two Giants of literature on the Spanish Front.

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