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Jackson Bryer on the Fitzgerald Insult in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Legendary scholar Jackson Bryer joins us once again, this time to discuss one controversial moment in Hemingway’s career, his vicious “poor Scott ...

Elena Zolotariov on The Torrents of Spring

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the midst of our centenary celebration of The Sun Also Rises, One True Podcast takes an opportunity to celebrate another Hemingway work published i...

Jeremy Kaye on Robert Cohn and Anti-Semitism in The Sun Also Rises

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In our third episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we examine the novel’s anti-Semitic streak and the central role of its Jewish ...

Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On the happy occasion of the publication of Francesca Wade’s magnificent Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, we speak with the biographer about Stein’s ...

Count Mippipopolous in The Sun Also Rises

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In our second episode devoted to the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we turn our focus to the beloved Count Mippipopolous. He’s an epicurean and ...

Susan Shillinglaw on John Steinbeck

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We are thrilled to welcome Susan Shillinglaw, the preeminent John Steinbeck scholar, to discuss one of Hemingway’s contemporaries and fellow Nobel l...

Carl Eby on How Hemingway Wrote The Sun Also Rises

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout the course of this year, we will celebrate the centenary of The Sun Also Rises by inviting guests on the show to talk about fascinating asp...

Boris Vejdovsky on "Homage to Switzerland"

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast is back with a look at another Hemingway short story, an under-discussed gem from Winner Take Nothing. One of the weirdest works in h...

Ross K. Tangedal on Hemingway in 1926

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from One True Podcast! We look forward to a rich, exciting 2026 by looking back to 1926.In our first show of the year, we ask an esteem...

Suzanne del Gizzo on "Christmas in Paris"

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for making 2025 such a special year for One True Podcast! Together, we devoted shows to the centenary of In Our Time, to our One True Book C...

Scott Yarbrough on "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast would never let 2025 end without one more episode celebrating the centenary of In Our Time, so today we discuss a classic short story...

Ahmed Honeini on William Faulkner, Part 2

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The prominent Faulkner scholar Ahmed Honeini first joined us in 2024 to discuss the rivalry and intertextuality between Ernest Hemingway and William F...

William Blazek on The Great Gatsby at 100

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Gatsby celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and you knew that One True Podcast couldn’t let 2025 go by without joining the celebration...

One True Sentence #39 with Michael Deagler

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Deagler, the 2025 PEN/Hemingway winner for Early Sobrieties, shares his one true sentence from To Have and Have Not.Join us for our favorite H...

J. Gerald Kennedy and Valerie Hemingway on the 1957-1961 Letters

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast looks ahead to the last volume of Hemingway’s letters! Although Hemingway’s correspondence from 1957-1961 won’t be officially ...

Greer Rising and Eileen Martin on Buck Lanham

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast examines the most important male friendship of the last fifteen years of Hemingway’s life, his extraordinary relationship with Majo...

Lavinia Greacen on Chink Dorman-Smith

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast explores one of the most influential friends in Hemingway’s life: Eric “Chink” Dorman-Smith. Although Chink has been mentioned ...

A Tribute to Patrick Hemingway with Sandra Spanier

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At One True Podcast we were sad to hear of the death of Patrick Hemingway, the middle son of Ernest, who died on September 2, 2025. Patrick Hemingway ...

Lisa Tyler on "The End of Something"

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast continues our celebration of the centenary of Hemingway’s In Our Time by examining a classic Nick Adams story: "The End of Som...

One True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 3--with Ilan Stavans

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast concludes its One True Book Club for the year with its third of three installments on W.H. Hudson’s 1885 novel, The Purple Land.Thi...

Hemingway's Cats

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion about Hemingway’s cats! Ernest Hemingway was one of the most famous cat lovers in all of American literature,...

Debra Moddelmog on the Wound Theory

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

About seventy-five years ago, scholar Philip Young’s “wound theory” revolutionized Hemingway studies with a thesis that argued that Hemingway’...

One True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 2

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast continues our summer book club on The Purple Land, the 1885 novel written by W.H. Hudson and read and re-read by Robert Cohn.In this ...

The Ending of A Farewell to Arms

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the happy occasion of Mark’s new Norton Library edition of A Farewell to Arms, One True Podcast goes deep into its vault. We are at last releasin...

One True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 1

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast ushers in the summer by reading a book that is not by Hemingway, but is Hemingway-relevant: W.H. Hudson’s The Purple Land, the 1885...

John Beall on "Cat in the Rain"

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast again toasts to the centenary of Hemingway’s In Our Time by examining “Cat in the Rain,” one of its so-called “marriage tales...

James H. Meredith on "Who Murdered the Vets?"

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Who Murdered the Vets?” is one of the most important non-fiction pieces Hemingway ever wrote. This 1935 article for New Masses excoriated the Roo...

Peter Riva on Marlene Dietrich

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

She called him “the most fascinating man I know.” He called her “the Kraut.”  Hemingway’s relationship with the iconic entertainer Marlene ...

Gioia Diliberto and Adam Long on Hadley's 100-Day Challenge

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, became aware of his extramarital affair with Pauline Pfeiffer, she became resigned to the end of their marriag...

Martina Mastandrea on "Out of Season"

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The great Italian scholar Martina Mastandrea, who spoke with us in 2023 to discuss "In Another Country," joins us again to talk about anothe...

David Yearsley on Johann Sebastian Bach

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Ernest Hemingway was interviewed by George Plimpton in 1958, he listed Johann Sebastian Bach fourth among those forebears he learned the most fro...

Carl Eby on Islands in the Stream: The Legendary JFK #112 and JFK #113

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as Carl Eby takes us into the nooks and crannies of the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. We will disc...

Alex Vernon on "Soldier's Home"

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast begins this year’s occasional commemoration of In Our Time’s 100th anniversary with a show devoted to one of its highlights. To d...

Susan Morrison on Lillian Ross's New Yorker Profile of Hemingway

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Seventy-five years ago, Lillian Ross published “How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?” in The New Yorker, her longform profile of Hemingway’s 1950 ...

J. Gerald Kennedy on Hemingway in 1925

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What was Ernest Hemingway doing in 1925? Where was he? What were his important relationships? What were his challenges? What was he writing? 1925 is t...

in our time, chapter 18: "The king was working in the garden"

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our eighteenth and final show celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this quirky...

Suzanne del Gizzo on "The Blind Man's Christmas Eve"

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy holidays from One True Podcast, and it wouldn’t be the holiday season without Suzanne del Gizzo—the celebrated editor of The Hemingway Revie...

in our time, chapter 17: "They hanged Sam Cardinella"

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the seventeenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.Heming...

One True Sentence #38 with Ruchika Tomar

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ruchika Tomar, the 2020 PEN/Hemingway winner for A Prayer for Travelers, shares her one true sentence from “A Very Short Story.” 

in our time, chapter 16: "Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand"

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the sixteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this ...

in our time, chapter 15: "I heard the drums coming down the street"

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the fifteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This epi...

Milton A. Cohen on in our time

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As One True Podcast winds down its ambitious year-long project of devoting an episode to each of the eighteen chapters in in our time, we visit with t...

Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years, Part 2

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert W. Trogdon joins One True Podcast to share the treasures of the new Library of America volume he has edited: A Farewell to Arms and Other Writi...

in our time, chapter 14: "If it happened right down close in front of you"

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the fourteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This ep...

in our time, chapter 13: "The crowd shouted all the time"

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the thirteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This ep...

One True Sentence #37 with Stewart O'Nan

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stewart O’Nan, the prolific author of West of Sunset and other works of fiction and non-fiction, shares his one true sentence from “The End of Som...

Olivia Carr Edenfield on "Cross-Country Snow"

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast takes on another classic Hemingway short story as Olivia Carr Edenfield joins us to discuss “Cross-Country Snow,” the beloved Nic...

in our time, chapter 12: "They whack whacked the white horse"

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the twelfth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this ep...

in our time, chapter 11: "In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy"

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the eleventh of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.Listeners...

One True Sentence #36 with Javier Fuentes

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Javier Fuentes, the 2024 PEN/Hemingway winner for Countries of Origin, shares his one true sentence from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." 

Stacey Guill and Alberto Lena on the Spanish Civil War Stories

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Live from Bilbao! One True Podcast presents our show live from the 20th International Hemingway Conference in Bilbao, Spain. We welcome scholars Stace...

Larry Grimes on "Today Is Friday"

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast welcomes the great Larry Grimes to discuss “Today Is Friday,” the curious playlet from Men Without Women about three Roman soldie...

in our time, chapter 10: "One hot evening in Milan"

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the tenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This chapter...

in our time, chapter 9: "At two o’clock in the morning two Hungarians"

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the ninth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This chapter...

Sandra Spanier and Verna Kale on the 1934-1936 Letters

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast celebrates the publication of  Volume 6 of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway by welcoming two of its editors, Sandra Spanier and Verna...

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera on "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We continue our exploration of Hemingway's short stories with his masterful narrative, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." To aid us in this...

in our time, chapter 8: "While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces"

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the eighth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.On the heel...

in our time, chapter 7: "Nick sat against the wall of the church"

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the seventh of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this im...

Amanda Vaill on the Spanish Civil War

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Spanish Civil War was a brutal and maddeningly complex historical event, with enormous repercussions on Ernest Hemingway’s life and career. To g...

One True Sentence #35 with Julie Schumacher

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Schumacher, author of The Dear Committee Trilogy (Dear Committee Members, The Shakespeare Requirement , and The English Experience), shares her ...

in our time, chapter 6: "They shot the six cabinet ministers"

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the sixth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.The scene de...

in our time, chapter 5: "It was a frightfully hot day"

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the fifth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This scene o...

Ahmed Honeini on William Faulkner, Part 1

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The two great titans of twentieth-century American literature – Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner – never met. They corresponded only a time o...

Stephen Koch on the Breaking Point with John Dos Passos

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode will focus on the Spanish Civil War and how one particular incident – the murder of accused Fascist spy José Robles – ruptured the r...

in our time, chapter 4: "We were in a garden at Mons"

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the fourth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.At 75 words...

in our time, chapter 3: "Minarets stuck up in the rain"

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the third of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this scen...

Mark Whalan and Karen Leick on American Modernism

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American modernism is a concept that is so slippery that even scholars don’t always agree on its definition. Is it a historical era, or a literary t...

One True Sentence #34 with Mark Kurlansky

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Kurlansky, the author of dozens of books of fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature (including Cod, Salt, and The Importance of Not B...

in our time, chapter 2: "The first matador got the horn"

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the second of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this sce...

in our time, chapter 1: "Everybody was drunk"

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast reads in our time! Welcome to the first of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of Hemingway’s book of vignettes.Starting w...

Verna Kale on Hemingway in 1924

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What was Ernest Hemingway doing in 1924? Where was he? What were his important relationships? What were his challenges? What was he writing? The exce...

Suzanne del Gizzo on "A North of Italy Christmas"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

‘Tis the season! And it wouldn’t be the holiday season without welcoming Suzanne del Gizzo to discuss a seasonally appropriate Hemingway work. In ...

One True Sentence #33 with Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, author of the short story collection The Smallest of Entryways and Ernest's Way: An International Journey Through Hemin...

Charles Scribner III on the House of Scribner

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The longest and most mutually beneficial relationship of Ernest Hemingway’s life was with the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing house, a partn...

One True Sentence #32 with Tim O'Brien

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim O'Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, Dad's Maybe Book, and America Fantastica, shares his one true sentence from The Sun Also...

Michael Kim Roos on Rinaldo Rinaldi in A Farewell to Arms

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a special episode devoted to Lieutenant Rinaldo Rinaldi from A Farewell to Arms!On this episode, scholar Michael Kim Roos (co-author of th...

Ian Marshall on "The Porter"

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever read “The Porter”? In this episode, we take you to a seldom-visited corner of Hemingway’s short story catalogue to discuss this fa...

David Wyatt on Grace Under Pressure

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hemingway coined the phrase “grace under pressure” in a 1926 letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Since then, the phrase has been repeated like a mantra...

One True Sentence #31 with Dennis Lehane

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Small Mercies, shares his one true sentence from A Moveable Feast.

Carl Eby on The Garden of Eden Manuscript

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, One True Podcast takes on the white whale of Hemingway studies: the unpublished manuscript of The Garden of Eden. Although the publis...

One True Sentence #30 with Oscar Hokeah

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Oscar Hokeah, winner of the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award for Calling for a Blanket Dance, shares his one true sentence from The Old Man and the Sea.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Lauren Arrington on Italian Fascism

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We take a look at Hemingway’s intersection with Italian Fascism by examining two of its most volatile figures, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Ezra Pound....

The Lost Suitcase

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For our 100th episode, One True Podcast investigates the legend of the lost manuscripts! In December 1922, Hemingway’s first wife Hadley, misplaced...

One True Sentence #29 with Robert Pinsky

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000 and author of The Figured Wheel and Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (among other highly a...

Judith Fetterley on A Farewell to Arms

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The legendary feminist critic Judith Fetterley joins us to discuss her brilliant and incendiary work on A Farewell to Arms, a piece from 1978 that has...

Nathaniel Philbrick on Herman Melville

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We head into the heart of the sea with award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick to discuss Hemingway, Melville, and where these American writers sh...

One True Sentence #28 with Kerri Maher

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kerri Maher, author of The Paris Bookseller, shares her one true sentence from Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.

Mackenzie Astin on In Love and War

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Actor Mackenzie Astin joins us to discuss the 1996 movie In Love and War, the narrative of Hemingway’s wounding in World War I and subsequent romanc...

James Nagel and Dimitri Villard on Hemingway in Love and War

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ernest Hemingway’s Red Cross experience in Italy during World War I was short, but it changed the course of his life and his writing. From being wou...

Barbara Will on Gertrude Stein

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One True Podcast continues our exploration of the always complicated world of Hemingway’s volatile “friendships” with an episode devoted to Gert...

One True Sentence #27 with Jay McInerney

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jay McInerney, (bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, How It Ended, and most recently Bright, Precious Days) shares his one true sent...

John Hemingway on Strange Tribe

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

John Hemingway - grandson of Ernest and son of Gregory -- shares his remarkable story with us. We explore John's important book, Strange Tribe: A...

Russ Pottle on "Hills Like White Elephants"

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is “Hills Like White Elephants” Hemingway’s greatest short story ever, or only his most famous?  Bolstering the case for “Hills Like White El...

One True Sentence #26 with Ilan Stavans

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ilan Stavans, publisher of Restless Books and author of numerous works including Quixote and What is American Literature?, shares his one true sentenc...

Gioia Diliberto on Hadley Richardson

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For an episode devoted to Hadley Richardson, we are proud to welcome Gioia Diliberto, esteemed writer and author of many books, including Paris Withou...

Martina Mastandrea on "In Another Country"

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The great Italian scholar Martina Mastandrea discusses “In Another Country,” one of Hemingway’s finest short stories. After Mastandrea treats u...

One True Sentence #25 with Naomi Wood

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. Hemingway, shares her one true sentence from a letter Hemingway wrote to friends Gerald and Sara Murphy after the death of ...

James M. Hutchisson on Hemingway in 1923

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from One True Podcast!  We usher in 2023 with our new year's tradition of wondering what Ernest Hemingway was doing one hundred y...

Suzanne del Gizzo on "The Christmas Gift"

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We welcome back Suzanne del Gizzo to ring in the season with a discussion of “The Christmas Gift,” Hemingway’s account of his 1954 plane crashes...

One True Sentence #24 with Michael Mewshaw

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Mewshaw, author of numerous novels and nonfiction works (including Year of the Gun, The Lost Prince, and the forthcoming My Man in Antibes: Ge...