In an age of endless words, Hemingway wrote with a rifleman’s precision. Here’s how. He didn’t waste ink. He stripped sentences down to their bare bones and nerves. His sentences were clean, sharp, ...

The plot thickens. Or turns into an unpalatable gruel. A previously true-to-life character begins to act like a bit player in a Saturday morning cartoon. Every reader has had this experience: You are ...

The recent PBS series on the life of Ernest Hemingway displayed the writing-style rules of the Kansas City Star newspaper, from when Hemingway worked there in 1917 and 1918. He hadn't yet turned 20; ...

“If my books teach you anything,” said bestselling author Paula McLain during the 19th annual Author Luncheon at Calvary Church in Manheim Township, “it’s don’t marry Ernest Hemingway.” McLain, author ...

Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form. His apparent renunciation of stylistic flourishes—the absence of lyrical rhetoric, the spare sketching of context, the paring of ...