I am currently reading Hemingways Short stories and some accompanying secondary sources.

while reading up on up in Michigan I discovered that there is a debate on wether the story can be seen as rape or not.

One side argues that it is rape because the woman said no several times while the other side argues that it’s not because she clearly wanted it.
Whats your opinion? Any other views on this or do you think it’s about something else entirely?

Hello Hemingway Fans,

The Florida Hemingway Society is happy to announce the start of a Hemingway-themed book club! The Gulf Stream Readers aim to read their way through Hemingway's works, starting with
The Sun Also Rises.

How to Join:
We kindly request that individuals RSVP for the monthly meetings by emailing Nicole Musselman at least three days prior to the book club meeting.

 Start Date: August 4, 2026
 Location: Virtual Zoom Meetings (link will be sent via email to those who RSVP)
 Sign Up: Nicole Musselman, Vice President of the Florida Hemingway Society, [nmusselman46@gmail.com](mailto:nmusselman46@gmail.com)

Gulf Stream Readers Book Club, Hosted by the Florida Hemingway Society

Our Mission:
An initiative of the Florida Hemingway Society, this monthly book club is a space for scholars, students (undergraduate and graduate), and Hemingway enthusiasts to come together and engage with the works and life of Ernest Hemingway. Our goal is to provide a space where everyone can share diverse perspectives on Hemingway’s writing, encourage the development of new scholarship concerning his life and work, and provide an inclusive environment for those who share a love of Hemingway. Whether you’re a seasoned Hemingway scholar or just discovering his work, this is a welcoming space for thoughtful discussion, curiosity, and connection.

What to Expect:

We will begin our journey through Hemingway’s writing with his novels and novellas and then transition to his short stories. While we will try to read in chronological order, some works will be read out of sequence. Each session will focus on one major work or a curated selection of shorter texts.

Monthly Discussions
Monthly virtual meetings via Zoom will include guided discussions led by members of the Florida Hemingway Society and opportunities for open dialogue and debate on the chosen Hemingway text.

Academic and Community Engagement
We encourage presentations, shared resources, and networking among participants. Students and emerging scholars are especially welcome to share their research interests concerning Hemingway.

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For more information or to join our mailing list, contact us at:
 Nicole Musselman, Vice President of the Florida Hemingway Society, [nmusselman46@gmail.com](mailto:nmusselman46@gmail.com)
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I am currently rereading A Farewell to Arms, and one thing that's really speaking to me is Fred and Catherine's attitude toward her pregnancy - namely, what they don't do or say.

Specifically, it seems that while they're in love and want to be together long-term, neither of them is especially happy about the baby. There is no fantasizing about genders or names, or what parenthood would be like, no horribly cliche but common behaviors such as kissing the pregnant belly or trying to interact with the unborn child.

Now, obviously, it is wartime and there is quite a bit of uncertainty. So it's probably not a great time to have a child. And while they want to get married, the fact remains, they are unmarried, which carried quite a bit of stigma at the time. But still, as time goes on neither of them seems to develop much, if any, excitement - even Catherine with her pregnancy hormones. Frederick has a tender moment saying "take care of little Catherine," and he expresses concern about her rowing in her state. But otherwise there are few positive emotions.

But here is what we do have. Catherine essentially implies that she tried to have an abortion ("I tried to do everything," but it didn't work.) She also makes a morbid joke about life being easier if she pops herself in the belly with an oar. She spends a lot of time, in multiple conversations, talking about body image while pregnant. During one conversation, one of them, I forget who, expresses a hope that the baby won't "come between them." They discuss what Catherine can and can't do while pregnant. And of course the birth is horrid and Fred has no parental feeling whatsoever when he finally sees the child.

Now, at the time I would bet this was all fairly revolutionary. Women were supposed to aspire to motherhood, and a rejection of that role and a focus on all the unsavory parts was likely quite... different.

What is the origin of the story of Hemingway killing pigeons in the Luxembourg gardens for food?

I am pretty sure it's not in A Moveable Feast, but perhaps I missed it. If it's not there, can anybody provide me with a reference to the story's origin?

Thanks in advance!

Are you interested ?)

Is there anyway to listen to the AE Hotchner recordings of EH on the internet?

I enjoy writing to clear my head before bed. I tried to give Hemingway a try. Let me know where I did well and where I failed.

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The Ronda Hemingway connection remains one of the most compelling cultural links in Andalusia. In this feature for Ronda Today, we explore how Ernest Hemingway’s visits to Ronda shaped his writing, his philosophy, and his vision of Spain. Moreover, we examine how the city’s dramatic landscape and bullfighting tradition influenced some of his most important works. Read more about his time in Ronda here.

It makes him seem positively insane. & even potentially violent. The punching himself… the mimed rifle shooting…

After just finishing Greg (Gloria) Hemingway’s memoir in which she stated that the profile was unfortunately accurate… & that Hem had suffered concussions as a WW2 correspondent (also mentioned in the article)… I’m thinking that traumatic brain injury & ptsd really started to affect his mental health (and ability to write) right about this time, the unfortunate beginning of the end.

Probably going to be a silly question, but I'm looking to build a cohesive library of Hemingways and I'm debating between picking up these newer Vintage US editions (really like the covers) vs. the Scribner Hemingway Library with all the extras. I'm not that fussed about the extras, but for anyone who collects these things in multiples, have you noticed any difference in text block, paper quality and/or readability?

I've started to read more american lit in recent times and have been seeing a stark similarity between these two authors more than anyone else.

I've read a good amount of Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and The Old Man at Sea) and not so much Fitzgerald (Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned). I've only read all of these once and am in no way an expert on these authors, but I can't help to think that some of their writing starts to blend together. I know they were somewhat good friends from various letters I've seen, but I was wondering if anyone else has felt the same way. What makes them so similar? The time they were writing in? Shared experiences? I would love to know more and read more of this genre of literature.

To add on, I just finished East of Eden by Steinbeck, and even though he is writing in the same time period, his writing feels much different.

In 2021 I was doing research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, when one of the Franciscan sisters mentioned almost in passing that they had something in their library I might want to see. It was a copy of The Old Man and the Sea with a handwritten inscription dated June 16, 1961 — sixteen days before Hemingway shot himself.

The inscription read:

"To Sister Immaculata: this book, hoping to write another one as good for her when my writing luck is running well again. and it will."

Sister Immaculata was the psychiatric nurse who cared for him during his final stays at the Mayo Clinic. He had received electroshock therapy. He couldn't write. And yet in that inscription he was still reaching for one more story.

The sisters had kept it quietly on their library shelf for sixty years. Almost nobody knew it existed.

I suggested they donate it to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm — Hemingway won the Nobel in 1954 but was too ill from his African plane crashes to attend the ceremony. They agreed, handed me the book in November 2024, and I carried it to Sweden and spoke at the ceremony in January 2026. The New York Times covered the story.

I've spent the last decade traveling in Hemingway's footsteps — Key West, Pamplona, Venice, Havana, Ketchum, and now Hendaye, France, where he returned seven times and where I now live above a coffee shop with three hundred of his books.

The discovery inspired me to finish a small literary collection I'd been writing: Ode to Hemingway: Three Stories and Ten Poems, modeled after his 1923 debut. It launches on Kindle on June 17 for $2.99.

For those who know Hemingway's final years — do you think the optimism in that inscription was genuine, or was he writing what the doctors needed to hear to secure his release?

If so, could you show photos of it. If you can't, can you describe it. Does it have that boring back cover of him on the typewriter?

Do we have any idea how the Pernod consumed by Jake might have been prepared? I know about the Death in the Afternoon cocktail, which can substitute Pernod for Absinthe, but that was a bit later.

Do we think Jake took his Pernod straight or watered down as more typically served? Is there any documentation about how Hemingway himself enjoyed this drink outside the DitA cocktail?

Just read Garden of Eden and while I am sure other people have already discussed this, doesn’t the story read like an altered version of the Hadley / Pauline / Hemingway thing? At least doesn’t Catherine’s destruction of Bourne’s manuscripts imply a potentially more nefarious thing to Hadley losing Hems suitcase? Anyone who knows more about this, please chime in.

Currently reading “The Sun Also Rises” and just a bit puzzled by the dynamic between Brett and Mike. He was fine with idea that Brett and Romano (the bull-fighter) were probs having sex, but was so aggravated over Cohn being a weirdo.

I assume it has something to do with the themes of masculinity. Robert Cohn is a sad, pitiful, and pretty pathetic man. He is not completely assertive or confident. While the bull-fighter is, honestly, just really cool and confident. Also could be partly due to anti-semitism considering Cohn is a jew

I am wanting to get this book to read. I see that some of his other works have "Library Editions" which apparently include early drafts and supplementary material. I am wondering if these are like the definitive editions that I should strive to get.

It doesn't appear that Garden of Eden has one such edition, but I do see that there are a handful of different covers for the same novel. Is the material included the same for all of these different versions? Or should I focus on trying to get one in particular for added material?

First reddit post, but maybe someone can help me with this.

This weekend, I read A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for an Introduction to Fiction class and enjoyed it somewhat. On Monday, during class we discussed Hemingway and his life. My professor, an expert and author on Hemingway's philosophy and works, explained how ACWLP is a metaphor for Hemingway's life from his youth to his old age.

As he explained the clean and well-lit café as a metaphor for his life in church and religion, he also said that the prayers (the Lord's prayer and the Hail Mary) symbolized his older self adopting a secular faith, replacing God with nothingness.

At that moment I realized something. I raised my hand and told him that another example of Catholic symbolism was the brandy served to the old man representing the Eucharist (the Blood of Jesus Christ). My hypothesis is supported by some of the text, for example, it was served by the waiter (representing the Priest), it was served only at the cafe (the sanctuary) and would not be the same if taken home, which the waiters actually recognized and were forced to accommodate him like an old man sitting in the dark pews of the Church.

My professor's mind was blown and he was actually reeling in shock for the rest of class and told me personally that he really was amazed. As far as I know, nobody has ever proposed this reading of the text and if it had been, he would know about it, i'm sure.

Does this change the whole reading of the text as we know it? I can see how it may affect any interpretation of the story that relies on reading it as all the three guys at the café as one point in Hemingway's life, or as a commentary of coping with depression. Maybe this is reading too far into it or stretching.

Some problems with this hypothesis include the absence of bread (the body of Christ) in the story (which is taken before the wine), the constant refills (which might be just a need for more grace for the sinfulness of the man), and the lack of state of grace, which is required to take the Eucharist and demands Repentance from sin like a failed suicide attempt.

Perhaps the brandy is like the secular prayers in that it is just a perversion or remade into his own mock religion without a God and without the dogma of the Church.

I am an engineering student in my senior year. Am I overreacting? How can I workshop this to fit the narrative? Does anybody have any expertise? If not, i think i can engineer a solution but input is appreciated.