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A young and somewhat impoverished writer who had just left journalism to pursue a literary career, he had little means to support an extravagant life. Yet the young Hemingway managed to capture and enjoy the small pleasure brought by a cup of ordinary coffee or a glass of wine. He ate, drank and enjoyed the never-ending banquet in a foreign city. Traces of Hemingway’s retrospectives of this life of excess can be found everywhere in the collection However, this lifestyle was obviously not without consequences. Traces of Hemingway’s retrospectives of this life of excess can be found everywh...

Hemingway, a documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiered on PBS April 5. Its three parts, each approximately two hours, are now available online. It is eminently worth watching. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was one of the most important American novelists and short-story writers of the 20th century, and a literary figure with an immense global influence and following. He is best known for his three most significant novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), as well as innumerable and often scintillating short stories a...

" A tribute to the Roaring '20s and Prohibition at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London, England. Wearing authentic costumes from America's prohibition period, guests dance the Charleston and play roulette much like those of the lost generation did. After the dust of World War I settled and the troops came home -- or didn't come home --it became evident that the world was changed forever. World War I ushered in a modern era of warfare with new fighting methods that affected an entire generation of young people. New technology introduced during World War I shaped the way wars would be fought ...

Join When most think of Zelda Fitzgerald, perhaps the profile of an unhinged alcoholic, a dead weight to her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career, or her striking death by fire that occurred 73 years ago today come to mind. However, up until quite recently, her life as an author, muse to her husband, and her truly liberated nature are often left out of her narrative. Zelda was criticized in her time, erased from her husband’s story, and as a result of several Hollywood adaptations of her life, has experienced the pen of revisionist biographers. Zelda was troubled and imperfect but also l...

By Madeleine Muzdakis on March 7, 2021 F. Scott Fitzgerald, photographed for “The World's Work” in June of 1921. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were the darlings of the Jazz Age—late nights, lots of liquor, and brilliant wit to match. The young author saw early success but struggled in later life in a remarkable parallel to the course of American history, which fell from the sparkling roaring twenties into the Great Depression and World War I...