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Long Live the Conch Republic

The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West

Reason

Hunger Games star Tom Blyth cast in new adaptation of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

The film will be written and directed by The Trip’s Michael Winterbottom

The Independent UK

A Memoir of my Former Self review: Hilary Mantel was peerless, but this new collection is one for purists

If you would like to read what Hilary Mantel made of Robocop, then I have the book for you. But if you’re looking for a memoir, as you might expect given the title, then you are out of luck. This is a collection of essays, lectures and journalism (Mantel spent…

Evening Standard

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A short history of insomnia and how we became obsessed with sleep

This article is the first in The Conversation’s six-part series on insomnia, which charts the rise of insomnia during industrialisation to sleep apps today.

The Conversation

Nobel Prize in literature to be announced in Stockholm

The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, with the new laureate, or laureates, joining an illustrious list of past winners that ranges from Toni Morrison to Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre — who turned down the prize in 1964

The Independent UK

Jo Nesbø: ‘Tom Sawyer was my first murder mystery’

The Norwegian crime writer talks about his early influences, changing tastes and the age-limit for enjoying Hemingway

The Guardian - UK

Up First briefing: Senate returns; Ken Paxton trial; Turkey archeological finds

The Senate returns after a monthlong recess. Texas' suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial begins today. Archaeologists in Turkey find massive structures below a Roman-era castle.

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Ernest Hemingway survived 2 plane crashes. His letter from it just sold for $237,055

The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun "held together with tape."

WEKU

Ernest Hemingway letter about surviving plane crashes sold for $237,055

The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: what do publishers' revisions and content warnings say about the moral purpose of literature?

This year, there has been some controversy about the rewriting of passages from authors such as Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie with the aim of removing potentially offensive material. Some publishers have also adopted the precautionary measure of adding content warnings and disclaimers to books by…

The Conversation

Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins the Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest

Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer from Madison, prevailed Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar, a frequent hangout of Ernest Hemingway when he lived in Key West during the 1930s.

WEKU

They swim against the current of climate change

But Man is Not Made for Defeat, being exhibited at Chitrakala Parishath, captures multiple ways in which people adapt to climate change, with all its complex socio-political ramifications.

The Hindu

Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest

Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer, defeated other contestants to win the annual contest in Key West, where the author lived for years.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Hemingway look-alike contest

The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has been won by a Wisconsin man who was celebrating his 68th birthday

The Independent UK

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How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

The Independent UK

Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest begins in Florida Keys

Almost 140 bearded men who resemble Ernest Hemingway have converged on Key West to compete in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest

Daily Mirror

Thousands take part in bull run through streets of Spain - and somehow nobody is gored

Thousands of thrill seekers took part Friday in the first running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. Several runners took knocks and hard falls in the 8am event but no one was gored by the beasts, a fre

The Independent UK

Thousands take part in first running of the bulls in Spain's San Fermin festival

Thousands of thrill seekers have taken part in this year's first running of the bulls at the San Fermín festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona

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The Conversation

How Ernest Hemingway transformed Pamplona and the Sanfermines

Jake Barnes is an American newspaper correspondent working in Paris in 1922. Cohn, a friend who wanders around. Brett, the beautiful divorcee who has turned the French capital into a platform between two trains. Mike, the promise of a husband she has procured in the meantime. And Bill, a friend…

The Independent UK

Best cities to visit in Florida, from Miami to Jacksonville

Chicago Sun-Times

El Dr. Francisco Martínez, veterano de guerra y médico en Humboldt Park, fallece a los 105 años

Algunos pacientes pobres le pagaban al Dr. Martínez con el queso que habían recibido como prestaciones alimentarias federales.

Tribune News Service

Dennis Anderson: Fishing hooks kids and grown-ups together, and we should do it more often

Wednesday was the 79th anniversary of D-Day, and to remind myself of the sacrifices so many men and women made so long ago I watched a couple of hours of footage that chronicled that important moment in history. Perhaps my interest was piqued because I had stumbled across some old…

The Conversation

Mystique, minimalism and cataclysm: Cormac McCarthy's fiction was a dark counter-narrative to American optimism

It is testimony to Cormac McCarthy’s reputation as a writer of dark and violent fictions that his publishers should explicitly have stated in their press release on Tuesday that his death was due to “natural causes”.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dr. Francisco Martinez, served in Spanish Civil War before becoming a doctor to Spanish-speaking residents in Humboldt Park, dies at 105

Some poor patients would pay Dr. Martinez in cheese they had received as federal food benefits.

The Times of India

Ernest Hemingway’s 'Across the River and Into the Trees' adapted into a film

American writer Ernest Hemingway, who is a winner of both-- the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. And now, the news is that his last novel is been adapted for the screen.

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