• Conversations July 18, 2010

    Sunday, July 18, 2010 2 AM. Okay. Papa, I don’t know if it is worthwhile for us to continue the discussion I thought we might have about community, but I’m available if you wish to do so. Of course I’m available. Haven’t we been setting you up? It certainly seems so, often enough!

  • Conversations July 20, 2010

    Tuesday, July 20, 2010 4:30 AM. I’m not quite sure of how to proceed. Ernest? Remember, in all this we are proceeding along more than one track. There is the correction of The Hemingway Myth for the sake of providing a model of completeness that the world misunderstood — not for the sake of doing me…

  • Conversations July 22, 2010

    Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:30 AM. Yesterday, as I was very aware, was Hemingway’s birthday. Who would have thought he would come to be so much to me? Finished Reynolds’ volume 1, and started re-reading [Jeffrey] Meyers, slowly, which is more interesting this time than the first time. Have not moved in Baker, waiting to…

  • Conversations July 24, 2010

    Saturday, July 24, 2010 Maybe too early to be doing this, but I seem to be awake. So. 3 AM. Again, Ernest, anything you’d care to say about life on the newspapers? It was a fast education, something I could learn to do, writing rules I could absorb immediately. A once in a lifetime opportunity…

  • Conversations July 23, 2010

    Friday, July 23, 2010 Nearly 5 AM. Funny, these guys. Subtle, too. I’m lying there asleep — at least I assume I was asleep — and I hear the doorbell, “ding dong” — only low, muted, and anyway this house’s doorbell doesn’t sound like that. And so with an internal smile I realize that it…

  • Conversations July 25, 2010

    Sunday, July 25, 2010 After 6 AM. As I consider this project in some dismay, I am starting to realize that your goal is as much to get me to move into analytical mode as it is to get out any particular information. Am I right? Why ask, when you have realized? Of course it…

  • Conversations July 26, 2010

    Monday, July 26, 2010 4:40 AM. Well, here we go again. But I am blank this morning, so I hope somebody is primed to go. Who’s up? Nobody? Maybe I’ll just go back to sleep. Good thing for you the coffee’s on. How about you, Papa? Sure. Your queued-up questions refer to my relations with…

  • Conversations July 27, 2010

    Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:50 AM. Sixty-four years old today. It sounds like so much, and I feel so scarcely begun. All right, Papa, nearly 4 AM. Your parents and you? It isn’t that I’m shying away from the subject but that like all the guys upstairs as your mind constellates them, I circle around…

  • Conversations July 29, 2010

    Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:20 AM. Good morning, Ernest. On page 81, Baker quotes one of your Nick Adams stories, in which Nick is getting married. “He wondered if it would be this way if he were going to be hanged. Probably. He never could realize anything until it happened.” That last sentence captured me,…

  • Conversations July 30, 2010

    Friday, July 30, 2010 5:15 AM. I should start with what I realized yesterday after the morning’s entry, at 8 AM and again at noon. [Thursday, July 29 8 AM. It explains a lot. Hemingway lived in both worlds routinely. Again, a model of wholeness. The C1 sensory everyday world he enjoyed as anyone does.…