For Atmike here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcasts, well

Ernest Hemingway is a literary legend, but unlike many literary legends, he gained that

status while he was still alive.

In fact, many already had tagged him as one of the world's next great writers right at

the very beginning of his career when he introduced his first novel, The Sun, Also Rises.

My guest today has published a detailed account of how Hemingway created his first novel

and in the process created the now iconic Hemingway persona, a virile adventurous laconic

wordsmith.

Her name is Leslie Bloom and her book is Everybody Behays Badly, the true story behind Hemingway's

masterpiece The Sun Also Rises.

Today on the show Leslie and I discuss Hemingway's drive to revolutionize literature, the

authenticity of his manly persona and the real life party in Spain that inspired his classic

debut novel.

After you don't listen to the show, make sure to check out the show notes at aum.ias-bloom.

That's BLUMP.

Leslie Bloom, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much, happy to be here.

So your latest book is Everybody Behays Badly, the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece

The Sun Also Rises.

Your journalist for Vanity Fair, I'm curious what piqued your interest in finding the back

story about Hemingway's first book The Sun Also Rises.

Well, I had actually been researching another story and I came across a picture of Hemingway

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