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Interview Without the Author: Hemingway

By Brian Carr

Does This Gun Make Me Look Fat?

One of our favorite short-story collections is Ernest Hemingway’s debut, In our Time.

Recently we had a short-story collection picked up for publication, and we thought we’d ask Papa Hem a couple of questions to help us get geared up for the release.

Ernest:

1. How many Facebook friends should I have prior to the release of my story collection?

2. How often should I update my Facebook status? Should I tell people everytime I write? Should I tell people what I’m having for lunch?

3. What do you think are the pros and cons of Twitter?

4. How often should I update my blog, and which three blogs are the most important for me to link to and why?

5. So, Gertrude Stein was a looker. Ever hit that?

6. Who was better in the sack, Sherwood Anderson or F. Scott Fitzgerald?

7. Did it hurt? That last bit? You know, the kaboom.

Video: Hemigway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Brian Allen Carr

2 Comments
robert paul moreira said:

classic, B.

I slept with Dark Laughter the other day. Does that count?

joseph cavano said:

I read Hemingway’s first published short story collection(In Our Time) back in grad school, taught it afterward, and based my first collection(Half-past Nowhere) on it.Like Hemingways classic, my collection traced the development of a young hero from”innocence to experience.” Unlike Hemingway’s alter ego, Nick Adams, my hero,Joey Fusaro was somewhat shorter and a lot more immoral.

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