#HappyBirthdayHemingway

Hemingway Writes The Baby-Sitters Club The four girls were friends. In a small town, friends make the days long and the sadness short, though it is still there. The turtlenecked girl wor...

"The four girls were friends. In a small town, friends make the days long and the sadness short, though it is still there. The turtlenecked girl wore a cap and a ponytail. She sat in the beautiful girl's room." #HappyBirthdayHemingway

Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” from the “Girl’s” Point of View He kept staring at the hills across the valley, just looking off into the distance as though he were the one getting the abortion, not me. Oh, whoo...

"I'd had friends get abortions, and I told him as much, to which he replied by mansplaining the procedure to me. 'Oh, thank you, I wasn't aware of how abortions worked, but please, tell me about it since you've never had one and never will.' Christ." #HappyBirthdayHemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s Shark Week There was a time when a man did not film the fish. You learned about the shark when you saw it break the surface. The shark is not interested in ra...

"A man sits in a boat. He is not old. He is not young. He has not paid taxes in thirteen years. The bait is old. The stench hangs like a debt. He lowers the line. The camera does not cut. The fish does not come. This is the entire episode." #HappyBirthdayHemingway

Baby Shoes, Never Worn: The Twenty-Episode Podcast Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” is often regarded as the shortest story in the English language. Now it’s fina...

"But what if they were worn? What if they weren’t for a baby? And what if they weren’t even for sale in the first place? These are the questions I’ve been asking for the past six months, following a twisted trail of secrets and deceptions." #HappyBirthdayHemingway

“Toto’s ‘Africa’” by Ernest Hemingway At the airport the young man heard far-off drums echoing in the night. He imagined the young woman in the plane sitting still, hearing whispers of ...

Hemingway's birthday is tomorrow, and we'll be posting our usual cavalcade of new and classic parodies of him and his work. To help kick things off, here's the piece that started it all. #HappyBirthdayHemingway www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tot...