Ernest Hemingway at his typewriter in Idaho, 1939. The writer disapproved of this photograph, saying, “I don’t work like this.”

A Lexical Feast

By Joan Frank

One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art Edited by Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon

“All you have to do is write one true sentence,” declared Ernest Hemingway in his posthumous memoir A Moveable Feast. The remark has echoed across the years following his death, in 1961, despite Hemingway’s own fall from popular adulation during that same period.

Enter two latter-day projects bent on revitalizing the late artist’s significance.