/lit/ - Literature

did he inadvertently make alcoholism cool?

ok lads. what was his best work? the sun also rises is an incorrect answer

So far i've read The Old Man and The Sea as well as Men Without Women. I really enjoyed The Old Man... and enjoyed a few stories from Men Without Women. What are some other Hemingway stories that are good?
Does he ever depart from the theme of masculinity dying so to speak? Admittedly im not well read, and im probably wrong as well as open to being wrong about Hemingway.\
It seems like he really really enjoys writing about traditional masculinity, does he have anything more akin to The Old Man... that is very grounded in mature emotional masculinity.
I don't know if any of that was phrased correctly.
Attempt at a Hemingway thread btw.

>Iceberg Theory
Let's be honest, he only called it that because he thought it sounded cool.

best short story writer ever?

Rank what you've read of his

1. The Sun also rises
2. Collected short stories
3. A farewell to arms
4. For whom the bells roll
5. Old man and the sea

What’s his best book?

>“You came barefoot through the snow?”
>“Yes,” she said, “and wearing only my wedding shirt.”
>He held her close and tight in his arms and she rubbed her head against his chin.
>“Avoid the feet,” she said. “They are very cold, Roberto.”
>“Put them here and warm them.”
>“Nay,” she said. “They will warm quickly. But say quickly now that you love me.”
>“I love thee.”
>“Good. Good. Good.”
>“I love thee, little rabbit.”
>“Do you love my wedding shirt?”
>"It is the same one as always.”
>“Yes. As last night. It is my wedding shirt.”

Favorite story from him?

>A writer of books for boys. Certainly better than Conrad. Has at least a voice of his own. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Loathe his works about bells, balls, and bulls.

Was Nabokov right about Hemingway?

Best place to start? Ive already read old man and the sea

"Fuck literature."
-Ernest Hemingway in a letter to Ezra Pound, 1924

What did he mean by this?