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Washington library to present short story series June 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Gunn Memorial Library to present series/ WASHINGTON — The Gunn Memorial Library will present a series of four sessions on the components of a short story and examples of exemplary work, starting on June 22. Jim Kelleher, a poet who teaches literature and composition at Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted, will lead this series. Titles for the June sessions include “Hills Like White Elephants” by Hemingway, “My Financial Career” by Stephen Leacock, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” by...

If PBS’s 'Hemingway' has you itching to read Ernest, these picks are sure to satisfy.

Print In 1924 the critic Edmund Wilson did what critics are known to do on occasion: He heralded the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction. Reviewing Ernest Hemingway’s first two books, “Three Stories and Ten Poems” and “In Our Time,” Wilson celebrated the early short stories of a Midwestern-bred newspaperman who’d served in the Great War. His work was straightforward without being naive, Wilson wrote, clear-eyed without being didactic, precise about matters of war and foreign lands, pioneering in how deeply he got into the heads of his characters. “It is,” Wilso...

Ken Burns: 'Hemingway' reads between the author's lines By (0) Ken Burns, seen here with daughter Lilly Burns, explores the life and writing of Ernest Hemingway in the three-night series "Hemingway" on PBS. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Ernest Hemingway sailed out to sea to fish in the ocean. Photo courtesy of PBS Ernest Hemingway witnessed the front lines of WWI in Italy. Photo courtesy of PBS LOS ANGELES, April 5 (UPI) -- Documentary producer and director Ken Burns tackles author Ernest Hemingway in the three-night PBS docuseries, Hemingway, starting Monday. Burns hope...