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More than an Alpine playground, Europe's most beloved mountain range has provided the dramatic backdrop in novels by Hemingway, Greene and Salter.
By Eric Weinberger
September 25, 2006
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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.
By Stephen Amidon
August 12, 2006
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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.
By Louis Bayard
April 19, 2003
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Polanski is pissed, Halle Berry is naked, and Victoria Gotti is canned. Plus: Justin Timberlake in a British brouhaha!
By Karen Croft
April 7, 2003
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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.
By Bruce Bauman
January 2, 2003
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Norman Mailer flattens George Will after the bow-tied GOP courtier notes a Hemingway-like eloquence in our president's mangled prose.
By Gary Kamiya
March 27, 2002
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Listen to an archival recording of Ernest Hemingway reading his short story.
February 23, 2001
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"The Fifth Column"
By Ernest Hemingway
October 5, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, May 3, 2000
By Joyce Millman
May 3, 2000
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The author of "Autobiography of a Face" picks five classics about life abroad.
By Lucy Grealy
April 17, 2000
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If Chaucer had retired to a trailer in Margaritaville, would he spend his evenings watching Fellini movies? He might.
By Carlos Amantea
March 1, 2000
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The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture.
By Lucy McCauley
February 16, 2000
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If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
By D.A. Blyler
February 9, 2000
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There are some questions even the author of "Sick Puppy" can't be asked.
By David Bowman
January 31, 2000
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Hemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
By Jonathan Miles
December 2, 1999
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Publishing that first novel often brings more terrors than thrills.
By Samantha Gillison
November 30, 1999
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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.
By Amy Benfer
November 18, 1999
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Dr. Bob explains consumption and reassures a woman who put on the wrong shoes.
By Robert Burton, M.D.
October 11, 1999
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The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
By Sean Elder
September 28, 1999
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Throwing back a few martinis in memory of Liberation Day.
By Gentry Lane
September 7, 1999
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They fought about politics, he stole Hemingway's girl. An old war buddy reminisces.
By Jon B. Rhine
July 14, 1999
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Why Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is great literary comfort food.
By Don George
June 2, 1999
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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.
By David Downie
September 21, 1998
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For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
By Dwight Garner
July 23, 1998
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In Kenya, Don Meredith encounters the last of the great white hunters -- and learns all about Cape buffalo and Ava Gardner.
By Don Meredith
March 19, 1998