Hello and welcome back to Hardcore Literature. Today we'll be looking at some short story

masterpieces by Ernest Hemingway. We'll be discussing his theories of writing and taking

a look at his adventurous and troublesome life. Specifically, we'll be discussing the following

short stories. A clean, well-lighted place? hills like white elephants, God rest you merry gentlemen,

the snows of Kilimanjaro, and touching upon some of his other works. I released the stories

we're discussing today a few weeks back. I sent the announcement to my newsletter and on my

personal website, benjamin macavoy.com, so you can have plenty of time to read them ahead of this show.

If you haven't read the stories, you might want to consider reading them first.

They're rather short and shouldn't take longer than five or ten minutes apiece,

and then you might want to return to the show.

Of course, if you're mainly

interested in Hemingway the Man and discussing his writing technique, you absolutely can just dive

straight into the show. You might want to hear about the stories and then read them. That works too.

And if you like this show, you might like the Hardcore Literature Book Club.

We've got some short story masterclasses for Chekhov, Tergenov and Moposant coming up.

All writers Hemingway adored, and we're currently reading, deep reading, Tolstoy's Anna Kerenina.

An author Hemingway revered and learned a lot from.

So, check out the book club at

patreon.com forward slash hardcore literature and choose the Proust tier of membership. It's all

completely self-paced and there's a great group discussion going on right now. So thank you very

much to my patrons. Your comments in the book club have been

thrilling. They've been insightful and they've even been inspirational. And your support helps this

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