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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.”

Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon founded India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali For Women, in 1984. In 2003, they parted ways to start their own projects: Menon began Women Unlimited; Butalia founded Zubaan Books. Now, in a compressed and edited interview for Mint, Butalia discusses some of the challenges she faces in India’s publishing ecosystem, and also notes, “in my 40 years in publishing, things have never felt as exciting as they are now. It truly seems there are infinite possibilities.”