Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's workout for boxers: An aggressive workout for fighters (not writers)

"My writing is nothing," Ernest Hemingway once opined. "My boxing is everything." He duked it out with a hostile literary critic in his editor's office in New York, and took swings at such literary institutions as John Dos...

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Cemeteries breathe life into tourists

He's chipped his way through more than a foot of snow and ice to get to Ernest Hemingway. He's walked right up to Al Capone and Karl Marx. He's dragged his mom to visit the infamous cannibal Alferd Packer and just came back...

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Pull down thy vanity

Today is Ezra Pound’s birthday. Born in Wyncote, PA, son of an assayer at the Philadelphia Mint, Pound became, in turn: a fledgling scholar of Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Provencal poetry — trying to gather a tradition of verse in...

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Cuba 2009

After spending the night in what we regard as one of the best airport serving hotels in the country (Crowne Plaza Gatwick) we flew out to Cuba on Virgin Atlantic for our two week summer break. We’ve reviewed the hotel...

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JFK Library Acquires Hemingway Papers, Authors Make Forbes “Dead Celebs” List, and More

Eggers’s Katrina tale will become a cartoon; China’s official state newspaper has accused Google of censorship; Emily Dickinson’s house has been closed after ceiling worries; Lord Byron’s unpublished letters have set an auction...

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Inverness inspiration for reporter's gritty thrillers

BACK in the days when he was earning his living as a reporter on the streets of Inverness, Tony Black was trying a very different type of writing at home. advertising "I started writing in Inverness, so it must have been some...

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Cayo Coco: An Island Paradise

all inclusive resorts that line its beachfront and the attractive coral reef that attracts divers from all over the world to the waters of Cayo Coco, Cuba. Cayo Coco may have its own international airport at Jardines Del Rey,...

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Copies of Cuban Hemingway papers now at JFK Library

By Associated Press Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Added 2m ago BOSTON — Copies of about 3,000 letters and documents from the Ernest Hemingway archives at the Cuban National Ministry of Culture have been made available at the...

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Frank Turner: from punk rocker to self-taught troubadour

Evening Standard 28.10.09 Add your view Former angry young man: Frank Turner On stage: Turner is permanently on tour He makes an unlikely punk rocker. Frank Turner was brought up in a manor house set among rolling hills outside...

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Guy Harvey inducted into Game Fish Association Hall of Fame

The man credited with popularizing sport fishing art and putting the proceeds to work for worldwide fisheries conservation was honored by a large crowd of his peers in a gala ceremony Tuesday night in Dania Beach.

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