Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Hemingway: Author or Brand?

Slate magazine ran a great piece (with new angles and insights, who would've thought it possible?) on Papa.  Solid criticism like this:


“His work of this period connects with our animal habits of consciousness. And the struggle it brings to the foreground is the struggle to make sense of—to find a line of narrative through—this disordered experience. Hemingway’s insight was to understand that this struggle was not just a literary one. It’s a fundamental part of how people themselves perceive and try to make sense of the world.”


Definitely worth your time.

Also, Hemingway does a book trailer - and tells us how much profit he'll be receiving out of the $3 per book price:

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