Posted in Literature, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, tagged ernest hemingway, f. scott fitzgerald, hendersonville nc on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“In Hendersonville… Today I am in comparative affluence, but Monday and Tuesday I had two tins of potted meat, three oranges and a box of Uneedas and two cans of beer… and when I think of the thousand meals I’ve sent back untasted in the last two years. It was fun to be poor — [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, tagged american heritage, ernest hemingway, snows of kilimanjaro, wallace paul conklin on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[On being introduced to Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba in 1955] I was eager to steer the conversation around to Miss Redmon’s class in American literature at the University of North Carolina. I had always been a bit skeptical of her ability to see into the minds of authors and extract hidden meanings [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ernest hemingway, gastonia nc, martha gellhorn, textile workers, war correspondents on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“It was in the textile mills of North Carolina [in 1934 that Martha Gellhorn, a 25-year-old investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration] found the writing voice she had been looking for. It was clear and simple, a careful selection of scenes and quotes…. What made it her own was the tone, the barely contained [...]
