We know Ernest Hemingway could drink, but he also could make an excellent burger. At The Paris Review blog, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan cooked up Papa’s famous patty. “The burger was delicious: each bit of it oozed a complex and textured umami, earthy and deep,” she writes. In other Hemingway news, Harper’s will publish a forgotten story, “My Life in the Bull Ring With Donald Ogden,” in its October issue, but only because Hemingway’s estate wouldn’t let Vanity Fair print it. The magazine rejected the story in 1924 and as his son put it, “I’m not a great fan of Vanity Fair. It’s a sort of luxury thinker’s magazine, for people who get their satisfaction out of driving a Jaguar instead of a Mini.”
Hemingway’s Beef
Not-Paper Planes
We're not supposed to call it a hypertext, but when you've got some time, try playing around with Paul La Farge's website for Luminous Airplanes - which will eventually grow to encompass three times as much material as the print edition of the book.
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“Silent” Reading
When you read silently, are you really reading silently? Or, as some researchers hypothesized in a recent study, are you “making ‘sound’ in your head?”
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Stars and Bodies
Recommended listening: David Naimon interviews Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star, about "anorexia and astronomy, stars and bodies." Pair with Alex Norcia's Millions review of Gerard's novel here.
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Chemical Disruption
“The short story is an odd form, forever dying out or undergoing a revival, impossible to define, sometimes seeming to be united by being nothing more than a text which happens to occupy around thirty pages or less: novels for people who can’t be arsed reading novels. Yet the best stories in both of these books show what the form is capable of: the world reflected in a puddle, the light gleaming for an instant, fireflies.” C.D. Rose reviews New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus, for 3:AM Magazine.
Project Yosemite
Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty's Project Yosemite is "an ongoing adventure to timelapse Yosemite in a extreme way." Their first video is (ahem) extremely beautiful.
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The 2010 Booker Longlist Odds
With the Booker longlist out, that means betting is underway. Bookies are calling David Mitchell, Tom McCarthy, and Andrea Levy the favorites right now, with Damon Galgut the longest shot to win the prize.
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Why do I think that Hemingway’s burger involved a scene from Story of the Eye?