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The Gift of Experiencing ‘Ego Death’
The Wall Street Journal· 50 minutes agoESSAY In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Ernest Hemingway crafted a tale of a safari gone awry. The protagonist is dying from gangrene when his pain suddenly...
The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting
The Atlantic· 4 hours agoIn 1939, Ernest Hemingway left a large collection of his belongings—the manuscript of his earliest short story, childhood trinkets, memorabilia from his...
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Favorite Cocktail Makes Bourbon The Star
Tasting Table via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoWhether it's Truman Capote's favorite "orange drink" (a vodka screwdriver), F. Scott Fitzgerald's...
The 10 best bars in Madrid
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhen you hear the words 'bar' and 'Madrid' in one sentence, the first thing that springs to mind is probably an old-fashioned tapas bodega with great...
Heading to the Florida Keys for a quick summer getaway? Here are 10 things to know
Miami Herald via AOL· 23 hours agoFor more information, go to keywestlookalikes.com 2. The most notable beaches in the Keys This is...
Remembering Jay Robert Nash, a prolific writer with a huge personality
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTo write a few words in remembrance of Jay Robert Nash seems insufficient, for this was a man for...
Big Germany, What Now? | Timothy Garton Ash
New York Review of Books· 3 hours agoMore than 1,900 years ago Tacitus wrote a book about a fascinating people called the Germans. In his fifteenth-century treatise Germania, Aeneas Silvius...
Don Juan Out of Hell
The Atlantic· 5 days agoTwo suicides, Hart Crane and Ernest Hemingway, were born on the same day in 1899. Two other authors, far more similar to each other, were also born that ...
Dispatch from the Past: Vienna Coffee Houses
In Hand via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoGet a caffeine fix at one of Sigmund Freud's favorite Old World cafés, and linger over apfelstrudel at the haunt still frequented by Vienna's artists and...
No Passport? Luckily These Cool Island Vacations Don't Require One
Cheapism via AOL· 3 days agoAbsorb some literary history at the nearby Ernest Hemingway Home, home to a number of famous...
