There was Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein who he later fell out with (but she fell out with almost everyone), Ford Maddox Ford and of course, F. Hemingway talks about the mechanics of writing, his daily rituals, how he and his first wife, Hadley, celebrated when he finished a story, betting on horses to make money for holidays, what they ate, drank and what was most interesting to me, was his friendships with other writers. The only place we didn’t visit was his local bar Closerie de Lilas (which my father managed to find after I’d already returned to London. Usually I’m all over the existentialists, but this year, we walked in the footsteps of Hemingway, even staying in a hotel on rue Vaugirard which goes all the way to the Luxembourg Gardens where Hemingway used to walk. Don’t you feel like reading up about a place you’re going to visit? I always get the urge. My father read this last year when we visited Paris and kept raving on about it, so this year I decided to crack it open as we were visiting the French capital again. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is a series of vignettes written between 19 just before Hemingway’s death about his life in early 1920s Paris when he was still an impoverished and struggling writer.
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