275 Hemingway and the Truth (with Richard Bradford)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Professor Richard Bradford, author of the new biography The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway, joins Jacke to talk about Hemingway's uneasy relationship with the truth. RICHARD BRADFORD is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over 25 acclaimed books, including biographies of Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley Amis, and Martin Amis. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. The writer's job is to tell the truth.
0:19.0	Ernest Hemingway once said.
0:21.0	In his memoir, A Moveable Feast, he said that when he was having trouble writing, quote,
0:26.0	I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think,
0:31.0	do not worry.
0:33.0	You have always written before and you will write now.
0:36.8	All you have to do is write one true sentence.
0:39.7	Write the truest sentence that you know. So finally I would write one true sentence and then
0:47.6	go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard
0:55.7	someone say."
1:00.1	Literary biographer Richard Bradford took a deep dive into Hemingway's life, his works, his private
1:06.1	papers, his letters.
1:09.5	Professor Bradford found something very different from this version of Hemingway as a passionate devotee of the truth.
1:17.0	In fact, as Professor Martin Standard said, quote,
1:22.0	vivid and pugnacious like it. Professor Martin Standard said, quote,
1:22.8	Vivid and pugnacious like its subject.
1:26.4	This book addresses head on the topic
1:28.9	most of Hemingway's biographers have found embarrassing his lying. So which is it? Was Hemingway the one true source of truth or an egot maniac who deceived others to the point
1:48.0	where he himself perhaps no longer recognized what was true and what was fiction.
1:55.0	We'll be joined by Richard Bradford, author of The Man Who Wasn't There.
2:00.0	A Life of Ernest Hemingway? To see if we can find some truth among the fiction, some reality
2:06.9	among the fantasy, some human among the myth.
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