Tag Archives: Ernest Hemingway

Friend or Foe: Writers and their Feuds

Friction among writers has all the earmarks of a good fiction story, but make no [...]

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“Such Friends:” Maxwell Perkins and F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Kathleen Dixon Donnelly Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins [1884-1947] and author F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] [...]

Fireworks and Breezeblocks: The Music of American Writing

In November of 2010, Katy Perry’s dance-pop anthem to confidence, “Firework,” debuted on the American [...]

Minimalism vs. Maximalism

Since the mid 20th Century, American writing has been broadly divided into two schools, minimalism [...]

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The Iceberg Man

In the pantheon of great American writers, Ernest Hemingway is probably the only one whose [...]

At Home With Hemingway

In the middle of summer on the beautiful campus of Dominican University in Oak Park, [...]