Ernest Hemingway

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Destination: The Alps
More than an Alpine playground, Europe's most beloved mountain range has provided the dramatic backdrop in novels by Hemingway, Greene and Salter.
"I didn't like sex at all"
Martha Gellhorn was a gorgeous, brilliant foreign correspondent once married to Hemingway. But underneath her glamorous exterior, her letters reveal a woman of awe-inspiring rage.
The sound bite and the fury
Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
The Fix
Polanski is pissed, Halle Berry is naked, and Victoria Gotti is canned. Plus: Justin Timberlake in a British brouhaha!
The critic in winter
The legendary American literary critic Leslie Fiedler talks about his encounters with Hemingway and Faulkner, his falling out with Bellow and which contemporary novelists will last.
Farewell to Will
Norman Mailer flattens George Will after the bow-tied GOP courtier notes a Hemingway-like eloquence in our president's mangled prose.
"In Harry's Bar in Venice"
Listen to an archival recording of Ernest Hemingway reading his short story.
Ernest Hemingway
"The Fifth Column"
Blue Glow
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, May 3, 2000
Expatriate novels
The author of "Autobiography of a Face" picks five classics about life abroad.
Lust and bullets at Rumba Beach
If Chaucer had retired to a trailer in Margaritaville, would he spend his evenings watching Fellini movies? He might.
Key to the city
The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture.
The 7 vices of highly creative people
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
Carl Hiaasen
There are some questions even the author of "Sick Puppy" can't be asked.
A good man is hard to write
Hemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
Writer beware
Publishing that first novel often brings more terrors than thrills.
Gertrude and Alice
When Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein, she heard bells ring. They went on to have one of the happiest marriages of the 20th century.
A moveable cough
Dr. Bob explains consumption and reassures a woman who put on the wrong shoes.
Elmore Leonard
The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
Hemingway and me at the Paris Ritz
Throwing back a few martinis in memory of Liberation Day.
He remembers Papa
They fought about politics, he stole Hemingway's girl. An old war buddy reminisces.
Paris on my mind
Why Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is great literary comfort food.
Paris's cafe renaissance
For centuries they have been the stomach and soul of the city, but today the cafes of Paris are enjoying a renaissance. Wanderlust's man in Paris, David Downie, reports on the new scene in the City of Caffeine.
The Salon Interview - Ken Kalfus
For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
The last of the great white hunters
In Kenya, Don Meredith encounters the last of the great white hunters -- and learns all about Cape buffalo and Ava Gardner.
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