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The Hemingway Stories
by Ernest Hemingway, Tobias Wolff
Best of the Hemingway Shorts
Review of the Scribner Kindle eBook edition (March 2021) collected from various earlier publications (1923-1939) with an added introduction & commentaries
Scribner's new edition of selected Hemingway short stories is released in conjunction with the upcoming Ken Burns PBS TV documentary Hemingway (April 5-7, 2021) and is edited by Tobias Wolff with individual story commentary by Wolff and several other authors. This is an excellent 'best of' selection even though fans will inevitably lament the absence of 1 or 2 favourites (I definitely missed seeing Cat in the Rain and The Sea Change).
Over the years, I have probably read each of these a dozen times or more, but I still find new nuances to appreciate every single time. The selected commentaries were excellent as well. I especially enjoyed those by [a:Edna O'Brien|7184|Edna O'Brien|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1615660470p2/7184.jpg].
Table of Contents
Introduction by Tobias Wolff.
1. Up in Michigan (1923) commentary by Edna O’Brien
2. Out of Season (1923) Tobias Wolff
3. Indian Camp (1924) Tim O’Brien, Tobias Wolff, Abraham Vergese
4. Cross-Country Snow (1924) Tobias Wolff
5. The End of Something (1925) Tobias Wolff
6. The Three-Day Blow (1925) Amanda Vaill
7. Vignette (While the bombardment...) from in our time (1924), later the Chapter 7 interchapter before Soldier's Home (1925) Tim O’Brien
8. Soldier’s Home (1925) Tim O’Brien, Tobias Wolff
9. Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Tim O’Brien
10. The Undefeated (1925) Tobias Wolff
11. In Another Country (1927) Michael Katakis
12. Hills Like White Elephants (1927) Edna O’Brien
13. The Killers (1927) Mario Vargas Llosa, Edna O’Brien
14. Now I Lay Me (1927) Tobias Wolff
15. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933) Tim O’Brien
16. A Way You’ll Never Be (1933) Tim O’Brien
17. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) Abraham Vergese, Mary Karr
18. Under the Ridge (1939) Tobias Wolff, Leonardo Padura
19. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) Tim O’Brien, Abraham Vergese
Trivia and Links
There are several articles, interviews and events related to the upcoming TV documentary at:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/ken-burns-hemingway-documentary-review-papa-as-millennial-avatar
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/ken-burns-ernest-hemingway-pbs-novick
https://mynorth.com/2021/03/ken-burns-hemingway-documentary-includes-michigan-summers/
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/hemingway/events/
Review of the Scribner Kindle eBook edition (March 2021) collected from various earlier publications (1923-1939) with an added introduction & commentaries
Scribner's new edition of selected Hemingway short stories is released in conjunction with the upcoming Ken Burns PBS TV documentary Hemingway (April 5-7, 2021) and is edited by Tobias Wolff with individual story commentary by Wolff and several other authors. This is an excellent 'best of' selection even though fans will inevitably lament the absence of 1 or 2 favourites (I definitely missed seeing Cat in the Rain and The Sea Change).
Over the years, I have probably read each of these a dozen times or more, but I still find new nuances to appreciate every single time. The selected commentaries were excellent as well. I especially enjoyed those by [a:Edna O'Brien|7184|Edna O'Brien|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1615660470p2/7184.jpg].
Many women feel that Hemingway hated women and wrote adversely about them. I would ask his detractors, female or male, to read this story. Could you in all honor say that this was a writer who didn’t understand women’s emotions and who hated women? —Edna O’Brien on Up in Michigan
You get a picture of the whole relationship without Hemingway spelling out the words. What’s not said is so wonderful. The control that he mastered is one of his signature strokes of genius. It’s a sad story, but Hemingway pretends not to shed a tear during it. We shed a tear. I’d like to meet Hemingway when he finished that story. I’d like him to read it to me. - Edna O’Brien on Hills Like White Elephants
One of the greatest stories I have ever read about tension, and a masterpiece of withholding. Hemingway “withheld.” It was in his genes, it was in his chemical makeup. He knew what it was to be afraid all the time and wrote about that. He gets to the heart of the matter, absolutely and unflinchingly. —Edna O’Brien on The Killers
Table of Contents
Introduction by Tobias Wolff.
1. Up in Michigan (1923) commentary by Edna O’Brien
2. Out of Season (1923) Tobias Wolff
3. Indian Camp (1924) Tim O’Brien, Tobias Wolff, Abraham Vergese
4. Cross-Country Snow (1924) Tobias Wolff
5. The End of Something (1925) Tobias Wolff
6. The Three-Day Blow (1925) Amanda Vaill
7. Vignette (While the bombardment...) from in our time (1924), later the Chapter 7 interchapter before Soldier's Home (1925) Tim O’Brien
8. Soldier’s Home (1925) Tim O’Brien, Tobias Wolff
9. Big Two-Hearted River (1925) Tim O’Brien
10. The Undefeated (1925) Tobias Wolff
11. In Another Country (1927) Michael Katakis
12. Hills Like White Elephants (1927) Edna O’Brien
13. The Killers (1927) Mario Vargas Llosa, Edna O’Brien
14. Now I Lay Me (1927) Tobias Wolff
15. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933) Tim O’Brien
16. A Way You’ll Never Be (1933) Tim O’Brien
17. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) Abraham Vergese, Mary Karr
18. Under the Ridge (1939) Tobias Wolff, Leonardo Padura
19. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) Tim O’Brien, Abraham Vergese
Trivia and Links
There are several articles, interviews and events related to the upcoming TV documentary at:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/ken-burns-hemingway-documentary-review-papa-as-millennial-avatar
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/ken-burns-ernest-hemingway-pbs-novick
https://mynorth.com/2021/03/ken-burns-hemingway-documentary-includes-michigan-summers/
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/hemingway/events/