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Reappraising Ernest Hemingway
Filmmaker Lynn Novick, like a lot of us, first read Hemingway when she was in high school: I was a little intimidated to pick up a book by Ernest Hemingway, she said, adding, I just got sucked into it immediately. [I was] mesmerized by the writing and the characters and the world.
Four decades later, Novick has joined Ken Burns to make a new six-hour documentary about Hemingway for PBS. It follows their films on other not-so-small topics: the Vietnam War, baseball and jazz. He is the seminal writer in the 20th century for Americans, said Burns. Those of you who know Hemingway, or think you know Hemingway, will get a new aspect to it. Those of you who don t, buckle your seatbelt!