April 2008 Blog Posts (2)

Bidding The Buddha Goodbye I came face to face with the several-stories tall, several centuries old…

Bidding The Buddha Goodbye I came face to face with the several-stories tall, several centuries old standing Buddha carved into the bluff in Bahmian, Afghanistan, when I was thirteen. I was with my brother; my mother and my father, all of us having hiked the rocky, Utah-like terr… Continue

Added by Hijo on April 28, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Hemingway's First War and the Art of Not Being There

I started re-reading Michael Reynold's Hemingway's First War, an account of the writing process behind Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. In the introduction Reynold's really captures Hemingway's genius when he discusses how so many experts on the war in Italy and the retreat from Caporetto in particular, adamantly believed Hemingway must have been an eyewitness to have written about it in such vivid detail. In reality, Hemingway hadn't been there during the time in which the novel takes place and… Continue

Added by eHemingway.com on April 16, 2008 at 2:48pm — 1 Comment