đNEW on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan: Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling
By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlanskyâs life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingwayâs legend. The New York Times best-selling author of Salt, was Mitchell Kaplanâs first customer when Books and Books opened forty years ago. They get together once again to talk about Kurlanskyâs new memoir, The Importance of Not Being Ernest. Hemingway lived in Paris, Spain, Key West, Ketchum, Idaho, but lived in Cuba longer than anywhere else. âWhen I went to his house in Cuba, you look around and thereâs almost nothing Cuban in it. It looked like the house of an American living in Spain,â said Kurlansky. This conversation is a treat for Hemingway fans and for those who would like to know more about the complicated man who had such a strong influence on 20th century fiction. Recorded in Miami and New York, during a virtual Books and Books event that took place earlier this month.
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