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  • September 2008

    • No Farewell for Hemingway's Cats

      Associated Press  |  Sep 25, 08 5:20 PM CDT

      No Farewell for Hemingway's Cats

      (Newser) - The bell no longer tolls for the six-toed cats of a certain writer’s home. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum has struck a deal with the federal government that will see the 50-odd descendants of the author’s unusual pet continue to roam the Florida Keys property, the AP reports. Hemingway, known for his spare prose, might have appreciated the simplicity of the solution: a fence. More »

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      Florida  • cats  • Ernest Hemingway

    • 10 Books to Pass Up With Confidence

      Times Literary Supplement  |  Sep 20, 08 5:27 PM CDT

      10 Books to Pass Up With Confidence

      (Newser) - Forget the coma-inducing titles that lit lovers keep telling you to read, Richard Wilson writes in his book, Can’t Be Arsed: 101 Things Not to Do Before You Die.  He lists the top 10 clunkers in the Daily Telegraph : Ulysses , James Joyce: notoriously hard, so why bother? Lord of the Rings , J.R.R. Tolkien: the first dangerous step towards reading Dune . More »

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      reading  • books  • Hunter S. Thompson  • Ernest Hemingway  • James Joyce  • Homer

  • June 2008

    • Sentences That 'Evoke an Entire Universe'

      Esquire  |  Jun 22, 08 7:32 PM CDT

      Sentences That 'Evoke an Entire Universe'

      (Newser) - Celebrating 75 years of fiction, Esquire offers some samples from "writers who could evoke an entire universe with a single sentence." A smattering: "Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well," Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro , August, 1936. More »

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      literature  • Ernest Hemingway

  • April 2008

    • Venice Bar Uses Discount to Lure 'Poor Yanks'

      Reuters  |  Apr 8, 08 10:05 AM CDT

      Venice Bar Uses Discount to Lure 'Poor Yanks'

      (Newser) - Harry's Bar in Venice has offered hospitality to tourists and expatriates since the days of Ernest Hemingway. But in recent months Harry's has noticed a sharp drop in the number of Americans showing up at the home of the Bellini cocktail. So restaurant owner Arrigo Cipriani has a novel solution: a 20% discount to subprime-stricken Americans for everything on the menu. More »

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      Italy  • weak dollar  • Venice  • discounts  • Ernest Hemingway  • Arrigo Cipriani

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