Ernest Hemingway

The orgy of literary treasures bought at Sotheby's auction

2013-06-12 09:34:00

Hold on to your hats: Things are about to get hot around here. Hot, that is, for people who love books, who covet literary rarities and whose pulses race at the thought of holding a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in their very...

'Plimpton!' documentary looks at George Plimpton's lives

2013-06-04 05:00:00

George Plimpton's greatest story was his own life. There was very little the renowned journalist, writer and longtime editor of the literary journal the Paris Review didn't try. During a career that spanned the second half of the 20th century,...

Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...

Setting Times stories to music: from Nick Cave to Dionne Warwick

2013-05-25 10:00:00

By Kari Howard This week, I came across a website called Six Word Stories. The website, its creators say, was inspired by a bet from Ernest Hemingway’s pals that he couldn’t write a story in six words. So I thought I’d do six-word...

F. Scott Fitzgerald has long been a Hollywood inspiration

2013-05-13 05:30:00

Since the publication in 1920 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, "This Side of Paradise," his life and career have been scrutinized, studied and dissected in countless critical essays, articles and biographies. Hollywood too has been endlessly...

Come to papa: Ernest Hemingway's papers return from Cuba

2013-05-07 09:06:00

Records from the estate in Cuba where Ernest Hemingway wrote many of his most famous books have been digitized and brought to the United States, the Associated Press reports. The materials will be held at Boston's John F. Kennedy Library, which holds a...

'Ender's Game' first official trailer: See it now

2013-05-07 14:04:00

The child soldier space adventure "Ender's Game" was originally published in 1985; it's taken almost three decades to get it to the screen. The film is coming this fall. In the first official trailer for the movie, Harrison Ford, one of the adult...

Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Studs Terkel together in 1982 video

2013-05-06 06:30:00

Once upong a time, before A&E had grown into the network that brings us "Hoarders" and "Storage Wars," it was a highbrow cable channel. A&E stood for "arts and entertainment" and showed things like operas and symphonies. In its most nascent form, it was...

Don't just sit there. Really.

2013-05-25 00:00:00

"Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us," says Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of medicine and director of women's health at the UCLA Comprehensive Health Program. "The chair is out to kill us," says James Levine, an...

Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles

2013-04-16 09:35:00

Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times' books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more than two dozen books set in and around L.A., as...

YA author Cornelia Funke gets reckless with her MirrorWorld app

2013-04-19 15:50:00

Cornelia Funke builds wild, wondrous worlds with her words, from the back streets of Venice, Italy, to a land of fairies and gargoyles called MirrorWorld. That's where Jacob Reckless, the treasure hunter hero of her latest series for young teens,...

Mariel Hemingway urges change to help others find a personal best

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Mariel Hemingway, makeup-free and in sweats, is gorgeous. That bone structure, her cheetah-like build and flowing hair have been familiar for decades. What's disarming is her forthright approach to a rough family history and her determination to live...

Ernest Hemingway at Finca Vigia in Cuba with, from left, an unidentified woman, his wife Mary Hemingway, and guests Juan "Sinsky" Dunabeitia and Gianfranco Ivancich.

2013-05-07 07:57:42

Although the Mojito, favored beverage of "Miami Vice's" detective Sonny Crocket, only became popular among cocktail drinkers in recent decades, it can be traced as a staple of Cuban culture as far back at the late 1500s.

2013-05-03 16:01:43

Ernest Hemingway liked cats. So he had a bunch at his house. Now the old man has been gone for decades, but the offspring of his cats remain, dozens of them, many with strange paws that include extra claws.

2013-04-29 12:39:17