Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II) Resources

Websites

Time for a field trip.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library houses the Ernest Hemingway Collection, which has many of his papers, manuscripts, and photographs. (Source)

Make that two field trips.

The Hemingway’s vacation cottage in Michigan is still there. You can visit and imagine little Ernest running around like this. We just hope he has the safety on.

Make that many field trips.

The Michigan Hemingway Society compiled a list of Michigan landmarks that appear in Hemingway stories. Many of them are from In Our Time or are Nick Adams stories. Can you say road trip?

Movie or TV Productions

Action! Adventure! Romance!

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man is a cheesy production from 1962 with a star-studded cast that would make your grandma swoon. Oh and it amalgamates some of the Nick Adams stories.

Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure (1999)

Objectively the best documentary about Hemingway ever made.

Articles and Interviews

The famous Paris Review interview with Hemingway

A must-read for aspiring writers; Hemingway basically tells you how to be awesome at it.

The Iceberg Principle

It’s a concept that Hemingway is famous for. Read about it here.

Read ‘Em on Their Own

A great thought-provoking article on why the Nick Adams stories shouldn’t be read as part of a series.

Video

Midnight in Paris (2011)

In Woody Allen’s film a writer gets transported back to the 1930s every night in Paris. Here’s him meeting a very manly Hemingway for the first time.

Hemingway and Gellhorn

Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen talk about their roles as Martha Gellhorn (who was a war correspondent and journalist) and Ernest Hemingway in this HBO film from 2012.

Audio

Hey, kids! Pull up around the family radio for some wholesome 1950s literary programming on the airwaves!

This was TV for your grandparents. Think about that.

Lots o’ Hemingway Audio

Including his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, “Harry’s Bar in Venice,” an untitled piece, and actor Charlton Heston reading “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”

Images

A Young Hemingway in Uniform

Hemingway drove Red Cross ambulances in Italy during World War I.

Hemingway! Fishing! In Michigan!

Clearly one good trout is not enough.