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Tag Archives: Ernest Hemingway
“The Best Things In Life Are Free”
Today copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, History, Music, Photography, Theater, USA, Writing
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Literature, Public Domain, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner
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write the truest sentence you know
“Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the … Continue reading
Summer Reading
Posted in Art, Books
Tagged Cartoons, Charles Dickens, Comics, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway
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Happy Public Domain Day Eve
Way back in 1998 Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act extending US copyrights by 20 years to life-plus-70 for human authors and 95 years total for corporate authors. The extension was retrospective, so works in the public domain went … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, movies, Music, USA, Writing
Tagged Bessie Smith, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Public Domain, The Great Gatsby
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Help Save a Paris Landmark
I have had the pleasure of visiting Paris many times over the last 40 years. And ever time that I’m in Paris the iconic bookstore Shakespeare and Company is one of my first stops. Even if you have never been … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, History, Libraries
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Paris, Shakespeare and Company
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Writers Not Writing
Posted in Books, History, Photography, Writing
Tagged Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, William S. Burroughs
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Discovering the Lost Generation in Paris
Decades ago, I made my first biblio-pilgrimage to the iconic Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. These days it’s not quite the same place now that it has an adjoining café that serves American bagels and brownies. And then there are the … Continue reading
All Good Books Are Alike
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the … Continue reading