J.B. Spins

From the perspective of great literature, Venice is the city to go when death is near. In fact, Hemingway’s Venetian novel is often compared...

Ernest Hemingway synthesized war and alcohol into great literature better than anyone else. It didn’t work so well for his relationships. Ye...

Maxwell Perkins fostered the development of Twentieth Century American literature like no other, as the editor of Ernest Hemingway, F. Sc...

If when asked who is the most interesting member of the Hemingway family you automatically reply “Mariel” then you must be either Barbara...

Ernest Hemingway deliberately cultivated his notoriously macho image.  Yet, he somehow he found four women willing to marry him at vario...

Those old school writers loved their liquor. However, it is not the alcohol that undermines a promising Jazz Age writer’s recent marriage. I...

She was a former Southern belle who was institutionalized in a mental sanatorium. If Zelda Fitzgerald sounds like a Tennessee Williams heroi...

Taking a day off in the City? Check out two vintage Spanish Civil War docs playing afternoons this week at the MoMA. You can come late too. ...