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Friday essay: Gertrude Stein got famous lampooning celebrity culture – but not everyone got the joke

Today, modernist literary icon Gertrude Stein is famous for many reasons. The “autobiography” she wrote of her partner Alice B. Toklas: a gossipy, ironic tour of bohemian Paris, featuring memorable cameos by artist Henri Matisse, poet T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and others. Surviving Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish lesbian, somehow.…

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Patrick Hemingway, last surviving child of literary giant Ernest Hemingway, dies at 97

Patrick's most ambitious undertaking was the editing of ‘True at First Light,’ a fictionalised account of Ernest Hemingway's time in Africa

The Independent UK

Mark Gottlieb On The Role of A Literary Agent as a Brand Builder in the Corporate World

Trident Media Group's Mark Gottlieb reveals how today's literary agents shape author identity, champion creative freedom, and act as brand builders—echoing the editorial legacy of Maxwell Perkins.

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20 Conspiracies That Were Proven To Be Real, As Shared By Folks Online

Redditors have been sharing conspiracy theories that turned out to be as real as the moon landing or Bigfoot.

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What's your drunk style? Are you a 'nutty professor', a 'Mr Hyde', or an 'Ernest Hemingway'?

A new study has whittled it down to four different ways that a few drinks can take you. Which one do you become?

Evening Standard

Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok: inside the glamorous Thai hotel adored by authors and Hollywood royalty

Everyone from Grace Kelly to Ernest Hemingway has stayed at this Bangkok bolthole — and Mike White penned most of the latest season of the White Lotus here. So what makes it so special? Lydia Swinscoe checks in to find out

Evening Standard

75 Rare Historical Photos That Capture The World Most Of Us Weren’t Alive To See (New Pics)

Why did things look so cool back then?

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I Found And Compiled 27 Interesting Facts From Literature History

Authors are a special group of people, almost living in a world of their own, always on the hunt for inspiration. That being said, here are 28 highly interesting tidbits from the history of literature that I collected.

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Friday essay: ‘the Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne

“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” wrote English author L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Modern Melburnians may feel the same. But while they live with an increasing cityscape of skyscrapers, the past is not far away.

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Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?

Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation was high: her personal nonfiction is the foundation of her formidable literary legacy. But as details emerged, readers began to question the ethics of its publication.

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The Guardian view on posthumously publishing Joan Didion: goodbye to all that

Editorial: Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely

The Guardian - UK

The Florida Keys Are Calling—Here's What to Eat, Drink, and Do in Key West

Counterculture meets tropical beach vibes in this unique island town.

Marie Claire

Rep. Laura Gillen on congestion pricing, campus protests and early days in Congress

Her race in Long Island’s swingy Nassau County was a rare bright spot for Democrats last fall. Now Gillen is charting her path in Congress.

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Where Creatives Travel to Get Inspired

From New Mexico landscapes to a remote Norwegian island, these retreats offer the perfect place to focus on your artistic side.

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Hiking in southern Italy: myths, mountains and wild boar in Cilento

South of the Amalfi Coast is a rugged wonderland of quiet paths through chestnut woods and vineyards. It’s all perfect for contemplating ancient yarns, spotting wildlife and enjoying local fare

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‘That episode is in the bin!’ Dave Gorman on his return to TV – and dropping Gregg Wallace

The check-shirted Googlewhacker is back with another series of Modern Life Is Goodish. The comic talks about finding life’s joyful side, setting fiendish crosswords – and his low-key calamity with the MasterChef host

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10 famous homes around the world – and why you need to visit them in your lifetime

From Antoni Gaudí's Casa Milà to the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, these are the architectural greats that have left an impression on the world

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A Quiet Evening by Norman Lewis review – they don’t make travel writers like this any more

From run-ins with Hemingway in Havana to gunmen in Guatemala, this colourful collection of the late writer’s long-form journalism shows why Graham Greene was an admirer

The Guardian - AU

John Marsden was a literary giant who changed lives. He was also a wonderful friend

In his writing, the author’s deep respect for young people was obvious. In his life, his love for and commitment to others was just as extraordinary

The Independent UK

Beloved cartoons are entering the public domain next year – but what does that mean?

Early sound films by Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, and music by Cole Porter and Fats Waller, are also included

The Independent UK

Hemingway look-alikes visit Cuba and some of the late writer's favorite places

Eighteen white-bearded men who resemble the late U.S. author Ernest Hemingway have arrived in Havana for the weekend to visit some of the his favorite places when he lived on the island decades ago

The Guardian - UK

Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review – 100 years of magical thinking

Edwin Frank’s finely judged survey of modern fiction from Dostoevsky to Sebald will have you reaching for novels you hadn’t thought about in years

The Conversation

Cop29 so far: the good and bad news

Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory.

The Conversation

Hemingway, after the hurricane

The 2024 hurricane season has been especially disastrous, and the casualties and widespread damage from flooding and high winds in towns like Cedar Key, Florida, call to mind another historic hurricane, the Labor Day hurricane of 1935.

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