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Six Six Sick (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Last week, I stopped by Agentur V to take a peek at the Spring 2010 collections. One of the most immediately captivating lines was Misomber Nuan , based out of Berlin. Although the drapey clothing looked deceptively like women's wear on the hangers, a quick flip through the lookbook made it clear that the collection was meant for men. Not the waifish androgynous types, but strong, brooding men, of...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Those of you who have been reading The Rap Sheet long enough to remember Men’s Adventure , my sadly aborted attempt in this blog to write a serial novel based on my early years at Argosy magazine, might be interested to read the real story in All Man!: Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the Masculine Persona (Kent State University Press), written by David M. Earle. Argosy gets several...
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Affordable Website Promotion (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
You must be prepared to work always without applause. - Ernest Hemingway Much of the wisdom available from established authors may be surprising in it’s honesty and straightforward nature. The reason this is likely true is the authors in question have had enough success that there is no need to candy coat the truths they have [...]
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Central Crime Zone (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Here is the line-up for Nov 20th. Paul Bishop, The Jane Bond Adventures, Mable Marley Michael Carlson, Box Nine, Jack O'Connell Bill Crider, The Girl on the Best Seller List, Vin Packer Martin Edwards, Victims, B.M. Gill Ray Foster, The Schoolgirl Murder Case, Colin Wilson Ed Gorman, A Memory of Murder, Ray Bradbury Libby Fisher Hellman, The Staked Goat, Jeremiah Healy George Kelley, The Forgotten...
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Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Almost a month after the launch events in the North of England Havana Cultura is coming back to Manchester for the definitive launch of Havana Cultura website, a window on contemporary Cuban creativity . In October we were treated to salsa and Havana Rum mojitos at Cord and Odd bars in Northern Quarter, and today, 19th November, we will be back to Mint Lounge at 9pm, to celebrate in the company of...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
ACTION man and novelist Ernest Hemingway once stated: “There are only three true sports: motor racing, bull-fighting and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games.”
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look back in anger (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
it is so fun to read about marlene dietrich. unlike the inscrutable garbo, dietrich seems to have no problem revealing how she ticks. here are a couple of real gems: "i work. and as long as people want me, and i have them eating out of my hands, i shall continue." "no man falls in love with me i don't want to fall in love with me" she is just great. she had a whim! collecting dressing-room...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Chris Matthews got together with the Politico's Jeanne Cummings and the Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page to look down their collective noses at the concept of Sarah Palin as a writer on Tuesday's Hardball, with Matthews even questioning the former vice presidential candidate's mental state as he pondered: "Is this delusion here?" After playing a clip of Barbara Walters' interview with Palin,...
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Celebrity Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Dree Hemingway is topless so she must take after her mother as she poses nude in raunchy photoshoot. Dree Hemingway , great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway, gets topless in this month's V magazine . The 22 year-old ballet dancer turned model may have inherited her mother's good looks and wild side but doesn't seem to be gifted with the family's literary talent....
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Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
1919 Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, the first combination English-language book shop and lending library in Paris. Beach befriended many of the world's writers, particularly in the 1920s and '30s, when her shop was a gathering place for expatriate writers and French authors pursuing new found interest in US literature. She also published the first edition of James Joyce 's Ulysses . The...
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Hollywood Grind (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Dree Hemingway, the great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, and daughter of actress Mariel, took her clothes off for a photo shoot with V magazine. Dree is a 22 year-old ballet dancer, who also models. Dree doesn’t have much up top. © Copyright HollywoodGrind 2006 - 2009. All Rights Reserved. Related posts: No related posts.
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Freedom Writing (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms When I graduated from college with a B.A. in journalism, my first...
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Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I met a man who met Ernest Hemingway once, or he said he did. He met Marilyn Monroe too and Mike Tyson too. The world's a small place. You too can meet someone who met Hemingway. There is a lecture on 18th November by Valerie Hemingway in the RDS, Free. Advance booking by emailing lectures@rds.ie. Valerie is a writer, living in the US but originally from Dublin, who met a certain Ernest in Spain in...
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Ken Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A computer program used to grade A level writing in England didn’t like stuff by Winston Churchill or Ernest Hemingway: The system, which is a proposed way of marking exam papers online, found that Churchill’s rousing call to "fight them on the beaches" was too repetitive, with the text using the word "upon" and "our" too [...]
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