Sublime

“Gertrude moved her large face close to mine. ‘You know, Hemingway, you’re someone I created, a macho character who roams the earth looking for adventure. The truth is, under pressure you have proved to be quite yellow, which is really an embarrassment to me.’

Malcolm Cowley assisted me in three important ways: His New Yorker profile of Perkins, “Unshaken Friend,” published in 1944, was the most comprehensive account of Perkins’s life to date.

“Lachrimae”

gingerly

Dad compared himself and Lenny with Gerald and Sara Murphy, socialites who entertained the great artists of the Lost Generation on the French Riviera, and on whom Fitzgerald based Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.

the end. The next day, two nationalists in New York, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, made their way down to Washington, D.C. They were seeking Harry Truman, who was living not at the White House (it was being renovated), but at the nearby Blair House. They wore suits, and they carried guns. Their idea was simple: shoot their way into Blair

Ces riches l’aimaient et lui faisaient confiance parce qu’il était timide, drôle, insaisissable, et qu’il était déjà productif, et, parce que c’était un poisson-pilote infaillible, ils se disaient que ses idées politiques, tout à fait sincères à l’époque, n’étaient qu’une imposture passagère et qu’il était bel et bien l’un des leurs, même s’il