Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises, whose slow fishing interlude Grant came to love only years later.

Where it appears 3

• 
  merchant of masksEp 6 · with Logan Macnair

  Logan's first example of a classic writer shaped by hard experience: he drove an ambulance in the First World War.

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  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 18:45Read it in the transcript
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  don't pretend you aren't confusedEp 1 · with Tyler Dorchester

  Mentioned by Tyler as the writer whose spare style ended the ornate prose era of early-20th-century writers like Napoleon Hill.

Connections

Wrote

• The Sun Also Rises

Mentioned alongside

• The fishing interlude grew on himGrant Shipway · Ep 2 · 18:45

  When young, Grant was bothered by the slow trout-fishing section between the Paris carousing and the Pamplona bull-running in The Sun Also Rises. Years later it is his favourite part…

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