Ernest Hemingway may be the finest writer ever in America.

Now we get to look at his guns. Welcome to Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, High Capacity Talk Radio.

All right, we're back with you, Tom Gresham here.

It's Gun Talk.

Our number is 866 825 5486. When you talk about guns and firearms, it's interesting

how many arenas you can move around in, how many areas you can move to.

One of those is the area of literature.

And you're thinking, what?

Well, actually, yes, Firearms and literature are actually connected in many, many ways.

One of the more interesting stories a long time ago, Jim Carmichael was telling me,

what you mean I know about gunwriter Jim Carmichael is his formal

training, college training, I think he was English literature, English professor, but he was

invited to appear on a TV show or a radio show and they said well you know could you wear a no it had to be TV because they said could you wear something plaid of course he knew was set up when he saw it. So he showed up wearing his Harris Tweed jacket with the leather patches on his elbow and there was a college professor there and they were going to debate firearms and before you knew it they were talking about the idiom of firearms in our language and how firearms have figured into the firearms in hunting have figured into literature throughout

really the history of literature.

You know what?

The very first literature you could say was possibly drawings on the wall of caves and

what were they pictures of the hunt?

Well toward that end, oh by the way if you are thinking of well Christmas

presents holiday presents for yourself or for others I have picked out some for

you if you go to our website gun talk dot com and go to Tom's Picks you will find a bunch of books

there and different things that I like and I suggest I think you can find

something you like and you can click on them and buy them right there.

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