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National Endowment for the Humanities awards grant for ongoing publication of Nobel laureate’s complete correspondence

Completed in 1956 and set in the Ritz hotel in Paris after Allied forces have liberated the city, Hemingway’s WWII story “A Room on the Garden Side” was published in The Strand Magazine.  Kirk Curnutt provides an afterword, describing how “the story implicitly wonders whether the heritage of Parisian culture can recover from the dark taint of fascism.”

A new, permanent exhibit has opened at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum.  Curated by Dr. Hilary Justice, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Inspired celebrates the writer’s achievements and inspirations by displaying first editions of major works, book covers of translations, magazine publications, early drafts, and photographs of women who influenced him.

The Hemingway Society is pleased to announce that you can now purchse back issues of The Hemingway Review directly from the Society on this website.  Visit "Journal Sales" marketplace!  No need to have any gaps in your collection.

At the American Writers Museum on July 9th 2018, playwright Jim McGrath will talk with Nancy Sindelar (author of Influencing Hemingway) about Hemingway and stagecraft prior to the opening night of Pamplona at Goodman Theatre.

From April 27th through April 29th, 2018, Hotel Walloon will present “The Last Good Country: Walloon Lake, an Ernest Hemingway Occasion.”  This third annual event will include guided tours of Hortons Bay and Petoskey, a talk by Valerie Hemingway, and a “Nick Adams Feast.” For further information, including reservation booking, contact Hotel Walloon.

The Ritz Paris will auction off over 3,500 pieces of furniture and other interior décor objects, including stools that once adorned Bar Hemingway.  The auction, which takes place between 17-21 April, 2018, will be hosted by Artcurial.  For more details, visit Artcurial’s online catalogues and press release.

Fundraising efforts are underway in Piggott, Arkansas, to revitalize a current mural by adding panels that will capture the city’s rich literary and cultural history.  New sections of the mural will highlight Hemingway’s connection to the city.  The project has secured financial support from the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and the Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Museum.

As General Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, Sandra Spanier has received the 2018 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement at Penn State University. According to one nominator, “Of all the projects now in progress that concern American literature of the 20th century, none is so significant—nor so detailed and complicated—as the Hemingway letters.”  For further details about this award and other evaluators’ comments, see the university’s news page.

Since its publication in November 2017, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1929-1931 has joined the ranks of the three preceding volumes by earning much-deserved, international acclaim.  The recent review by N.J.