The Chris Hedges Report: Hemingway’s Shadow – Everything Law and Order Blog

The writer Mark Kurlansky, by a series of coincidences, spent his life as a journalist and author in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway, starting with his presence in Idaho on the day Hemingway died. Kurlansky would reside and work during his career in Paris, the Basque region of Spain, Cuba, and Ketchum, Idaho—all places where Hemingway lived, and where his myth remains firmly implanted and celebrated. Kurlansky struggled to free himself from the haunting presence of Hemingway, whose life—starting with the tales he told of being an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I—was a confusing blur of fact, exaggeration, hyperbole, and lies. There is much in Hemingway’s life and writing to admire, and much to reject. Mark Kurlansky joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his new book “The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway.”

Chris Hedges interviews writers, intellectuals, and dissidents, many banished from the mainstream, in his half-hour show, The Chris Hedges Report. He gives voice to those, from Cornel West and Noam Chomsky to the leaders of groups such as Extinction Rebellion, who are on the front lines of the struggle against militarism, corporate capitalism, white supremacy, the looming ecocide, as well as the battle to wrest back our democracy from the clutches of the ruling global oligarchy.

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27 thoughts on “The Chris Hedges Report: Hemingway’s Shadow”
  1. There was a great deal of correspondence between Hemingway & George Orwell in the latter's "Collected Essays, Letters & Journalism" published by Penguin in three parts 1970-1980. They might still be around. 🤔 (Green Fire, UK)

  2. Hemingway was a small town news paper wrighter..if it wasn't for the help he got from Esra Pond.whom rewrote . Hemingways book Hemingway would have never been famous

  3. Hemingway was a creative man in full celebration of freeborn manhood in its cultist apex. There is no negative criticism of him, if you hail from the same cult. Socialists, communists, social misfits and punks have no right to criticism. Who are they to do so, while enveloped inside the dimming, if not amoralistic light they stand in? I don't see the logic, personally.

  4. When I was a kid my friend and I decided we were going to write a song. I remember he said turn on some music while we were brainstorming. I said wait you can't listen to music while trying to write music!

  5. MR HEDGES IS RIGHT to write this book,because you may cause or begin a war when you need it,but must know that you can't STOP that when you like to stop it,even if you're dollar curence printer.

  6. Hemmingway had a habit of re writing material many times till it pleased him it was terse enough. He is famous for that. With that kind of perfectionist mind it is easy to see how he got into lots of trouble over it. It also was a road sign on his path toward suicide. As a young writer, I almost worshiped this style of wring till I learned more about the man Ernest Hemingway. At some point however I came to a less flattering opinion of his writing. He was constantly replaying the most negative events in his life and fine tuning the expressions of painful nostalgia in his work. I eventuall discounted much of his work on a personal basis.

  7. "Every human being that loves freedom owes to the Red Army more than he will be able to repay in a life time", Ernest Hemingway.

  8. A relevant, formal education is the one that builds knowledge, skills, abilities… the cognitive and physical tools to live outside the proverbial box. We invest ourselves to break & parse data, observe & recognize patterns, learn & decipher code, allow perceptions and give conceptions. We crack X-files, we construct and tell stories. For a time-resistant education, likely, there may be no substitute.

    "You ain't the first son-of-a-bitch to wake up out of their dream." — Nada

    Do we take the headlong flight, to roll the bones… to be a new world man?

    New Earth Army – GenX Battalion

    That's all for now. Where's my helmet, I'm late for work. Yes, I'm a working man.

  9. Kerouac was terrible in interviews as well. I think writers hear what they are about to write, not so much speak what they write. They are channeling something. Although Chris seems gifted at both.

  10. A Moveable Feast is my favorite Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises was also an excellent read. His conversations with Fitzgerald were hilarious. His portrayal of the bullfight was a visceral experience.

    If I’m not mistaken Proust was an art critic for a Parisian cultural magazine something like Seattle’s The Stranger.

  11. I have been following Mr. Hedges for years and enjoy the informative interviews on issues and, as an artist, on the arts. Personally, I have always found his writing rather lean with a short, simple, and continuous staccato rhythm, but constantly surrounded by popular enthusiasm, I avoided criticism. Thank you for confirming that I am not alone. Your insight into Hemingway's personality explained much for me. Thank you again.
    Rodney Robert Brown, Author, "Powerless to be Born"

  12. Robert Persig also believed that a person should not listen to music while doing anything else that one feels is important because both activities will suffer. If you care about what you are doing then you WONT try to multitask it with something else.

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