When one thinks of Ernest Hemingway, two images usually spring to mind. There is the familiar Ernest of the 1920s in Paris: youthful, energetic, courageous and fearless, with dimples in his cheeks; an image perpetuated by the author himself in his posthumous memoir A Moveable Feast. Then there is the seminal image of Papa Hemingway inContinue reading “We are all bitched from the start: A Review of the Hemingway Letters, Volume 5.”
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Looking at Ruins of Youth: A Review of Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’
★★★☆☆ Chapter 1 of The Secret History begins with a thump, dynamically, boisterously: “Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that snowy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbidContinue reading “Looking at Ruins of Youth: A Review of Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’”
Of Ivory & Gold 