Rico Suave

How awesome is Hemingway? It's crazy.

And the fact that stuff like this actually happened is just dumbfounding to me:

"In 1954 he was given the Nobel Prize. Gabriel García Márquez, still a journalist, caught sight of Hemingway and his wife in Paris one day in 1957 walking along the Boulevard Saint-Michel. Hemingway was wearing old jeans and a lumberjack’s shirt. He had long been one of García Márquez’s great heroes, for his myth as well as his writing. The Old Man and the Sea had hit García Márquez “like a stick of dynamite”; he was too timid to approach Hemingway but also too excited not to do something. From the opposite side of the street he called out, “Maestro!” Hemingway raised a hand as he called back “in a slightly puerile voice,” “Adios, amigo!”"

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Click here for a review of a new book on him, a good read in itself.

The Finest Life You Ever Saw.

"I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her."

--Hemingway

The Paris Wife is a new novel by Paula McLain based on Hemingway's marriage to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.  If you are Hemingway obsessed like I am, you know that Heminway's first marriage is largely depicted in his novel - A Moveable Feast (a must read).

Although Richardson's marriage to Hemingway ended in divorce (Hemingway would go on to marry 3 more times), she had often said...

when she hooked her star to Heminway's that she exploded into life. How romantic. 

Click here to read more about Paula McLain's journey in writing The Paris Wife (click here for an excerpt) and stay tuned for a book review from moi. 

For all you Paris loving swooners - here is a book that will produce some truly romantic images.