One True Podcast
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Jackson Bryer on the Hemingway Code
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by legendary scholar Jackson Bryer, who explains the origins and implications of a notorious concept: the Hemingway code. When the code...
Don Daiker on The Nick Adams Stories
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome prolific scholar Don Daiker to help us celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Nick Adams Stories. We discuss the volu...
One True Sentence #23 with Joshua Ferris
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Ferris, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel Then We Came to the End, joins us to discuss his one true sentence from The Sun Also R...
Hariclea Zengos on "On the Quai at Smyrna"
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred years ago, in September 1922, Turkish forces torched the port city of Smyrna in a hellish episode towards the end of the Greco-Turkish War...
Kirk Curnutt on "After the Storm"
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are asking the entire One True Podcast community to contribute to the Hurricane Ian relief effort. Our production studios are in Fort Myers, Florid...
One True Sentence #22 with Kawai Strong Washburn
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kawai Strong Washburn, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors, joins us to discuss his one true sentence from &...
Timothy Christian on Mary Welsh Hemingway
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Christian, author of Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway, joins us for a conversation about Hemingway's f...
Thomas Neil Knowles and Erika Robuck on the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast examines the deadly category 5 hurricane that ravaged the Florida Keys over Labor Day weekend in 1935, both from a historical perspec...
One True Sentence #21 with Billy Collins
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Billy Collins, the author of numerous collections of poetry and the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003 , shares his one true sentence from "A C...
John Sutton and Chris Warren on Hemingway's Rockies
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this live interview from the 19th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference in Sheridan, Wyoming, we talk with John Sutton and Chris Warren about Hemin...
One True Sentence #20 with Craig Johnson
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Johnson, author of the widely celebrated Longmire series, shares his one true sentence from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
Darla Worden on Hemingway's Wyoming
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the lead-up to the Hemingway Society conference in Wyoming and Montana, we welcome Darla Worden to explore some fascinating connections between Hem...
One True Sentence #19 with Jennifer Haigh
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Haigh, author of Mrs. Kimble and Mercy Street, joins us to talk about her one true sentence from the short story "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot.&q...
Tom Jenks on Editing The Garden of Eden
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1986, twenty-five years after Hemingway’s death, Scribner’s published a coherent portion of his sprawling manuscript called The Garden of Eden....
Mark I. Lurie on Lewis Galantière and Rufus Hickok on Guy Hickok
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode investigates two largely forgotten figures from Hemingway’s past: Lewis Galantière and Guy Hickok. Galantière was a critic who b...
One True Sentence #18 with David Frum
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Frum, staff writer at The Atlantic, author of numerous books including Trumpocracy and Trumpocalypse, and speechwriter for President George W. B...
Andrew Feldman on Revolutionary Cuba
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Feldman joins us to talk about his book Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba. What did Cuba mean to Papa and what has ...
J. Gerald Kennedy on In Our Time
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hemingway’s first book of short stories, In Our Time, is the most experimental work of his career and his most challenging. It is also an early mast...
One True Sentence #17 with Michael Katakis
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Katakis, photographer and author of A Thousand Shards of Glass, Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life, and Dangerous Men, joins us to talk a...
Ruth A. Hawkins on Pauline Pfeiffer
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pride of Arkansas, Ruth A. Hawkins, joins the show for an illuminating episode on Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.Hawkins draws from h...
Michael Thurston on Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a conversation about one of Hemingway's most beloved secondary characters: the hard-drinking, fun-loving, quick-witted writer, fly fi...
One True Sentence #16 with Brian Turner
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet and My Life as a Foreign Country, joins us to talk about his one true sentence from The Old Man and the Sea.
Sarah Churchwell on Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet us at rue Delambre for a memorable chat with Sarah Churchwell about the way Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast has shaped the way we think abo...
Ryan Hediger on "A Natural History of the Dead"
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Ryan Hediger to get to the bottom of Hemingway's genre-bending and gruesomely descriptive "A Natural History of the Dead.&q...
One True Sentence #15 with Pam Houston
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, Deep Creek, and Contents May Have Shifted, joins us to talk about her one true Hemingway sentence.
Mary V. Dearborn on Hemingway in 1922
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We usher in 2022 by exploring what Hemingway was doing one hundred years ago. Mary V. Dearborn, the author of Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, joins the...
Suzanne del Gizzo on "Christmas on the Roof of the World"
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ring in the season with One True Podcast! Hemingway Review editor Suzanne del Gizzo joins us on our holiday show for the second year in a row. For thi...
One True Sentence #14 with Sherman Alexie
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sherman Alexie, the award-winning writer, poet, and filmmaker whose works include The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Reservation Blue...
James Naremore on the 75th Anniversary of The Killers
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stop by Henry’s lunch-room as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the adaptation of The Killers with legendary film historian James Naremore. We d...
One True Sentence #13 with Debra A. Moddelmog
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Debra Moddelmog shares her one true sentence from Hemingway's short story "The Sea Change."
Janet Somerville on Martha Gellhorn
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we welcome Janet Somerville, author of Yours, for Probably Always, for a fascinating discussion about Martha Gellhorn. Gellhorn is most oft...
Hemingway and Baseball
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we celebrate the Fall Classic with a show devoted to Hemingway and baseball. First, we welcome scholar Sharon Hamilton to discuss the...
One True Sentence #12 with Russell Banks
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Banks, author of Cloudsplitter and Foregone, shares his one true sentence from Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.
From St. Louis to Kansas City with Andrew Theising and Steve Paul
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jump on Interstate 70 with us as we take a trip between two great American cities planted on the outer edges of Missouri -- St. Louis and Kansas City ...
Nicholas Reynolds on Hemingway as Soldier and Spy
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Nicholas Reynolds, author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961, to discus...
One True Sentence #11 with Erik Nakjavani
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Nakjavani shares his one true sentence from Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa.
A. Scott Berg on Max Perkins
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this fascinating discussion, we welcome the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian A. Scott Berg, author of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, to discuss Pe...
Valerie Hemingway on the Summer of 1959
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Valerie Hemingway to share her memories of her father-in-law and the thrilling Spanish summer of 1959. We draw from her wonderful memoir Ru...
One True Sentence #10 with Andre Dubus III
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, Townie, and Gone So Long, talks about his one true Hemingway sentence from "Hills Like White El...
Alex Fernandez de Castro and Hugh Eakin on Joan Miró's The Farm
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast takes a deep dive into Joan Miró’s masterpiece and Hemingway’s beloved possession, The Farm. We welcome art historian Alex Fer...
Amanda Vaill on Gerald and Sara Murphy
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Vaill takes us to the French Riviera of the 1920s, drawing from her definitive book, Everybody Was So Young, to describe who Gerald and Sara Mu...
One True Sentence #9 with Hideo Yanagisawa
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hideo Yanagisawa shares his choice for Hemingway's one true sentence, which comes from a letter to Charles Scribner about The Old Man and the Sea...
Paul Hendrickson on Hemingway's Boat, Pilar
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome aboard Paul Hendrickson for a discussion about his poignant book on Hemingway’s beloved Pilar, the best-selling Hemingway’s Boat: Every...
Mark Salter on How Hemingway Inspired Senator John McCain
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Mark Salter, who served as Senator John McCain's advisor and speechwriter, to discuss the senator's lifelong passion for the work...
One True Sentence #8 with Elizabeth Strout
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout shares her one true sentence from Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on Their Hemingway Documentary
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We celebrate the new PBS documentary Hemingway by discussing this historic three-part series with its directors, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Our conver...
Laura Godfrey on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” is one of Hemingway’s greatest stories and one of his most controversial. Is the shocking death at th...
One True Sentence #7 with Boris Vejdovsky
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Boris Vejdovsky's true sentence from Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" leads to an illuminating and wide-ranging conv...
Carol Armstrong on Paul Cézanne
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ernest Hemingway never acknowledged the influence of any artist in any medium more generously than that of the French painter Paul Cézanne. From the ...
Ross K. Tangedal on Three Stories & Ten Poems
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast welcomes scholar Ross Tangedal for a spirited discussion about Hemingway’s 1923 publication, Three Stories & Ten Poems, includi...
One True Sentence #6 with Paula McLain
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Love and Ruin, talks about her one true Hemingway sentence.
Adrian Sparks on Playing Papa
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast continues its exploration of Hemingway on film by welcoming the legendary actor Adrian Sparks to discuss his iconic portrayal of Hemi...
Suzanne del Gizzo on "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Holidays from One True Podcast! Enjoy our first Holiday Spectacular as we ring in the season with Suzanne del Gizzo, scholar and editor of The...
One True Sentence #5 with Mark P. Ott
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark P. Ott discusses his choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel on the 1932-1934 Letters
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an all-new One True Podcast as we welcome Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel to discuss the fifth volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingw...
Robert K. Elder on Hemingway in Comics
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast welcomes Robert K. Elder, author of the entertaining and fascinating Hemingway in Comics. In this episode, we talk about how popular ...
One True Sentence #4 with Verna Kale
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast asks Verna Kale her choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.” Kale's sentence comes from the short story "Soldier...
Seán Hemingway on The Old Man and the Sea
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast was privileged to welcome Seán Hemingway – editor of the Hemingway Library Editions and the grandson of the writer – to discuss ...
John Irvin on The Garden of Eden Film
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast welcomes award-winning director John Irvin to talk about his 2008 film adaptation of Hemingway's posthumous novel The Garden of ...
One True Sentence #3 with Gail Sinclair
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast asks Gail Sinclair her choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast welcomes Robert W. Trogdon to discuss his beautiful new publication, the Library of America edition of Hemingway’s early writing, f...
Representative Jim McGovern on the Finca Vigía Foundation
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast understands that we all can’t get together at El Floridita and while away the afternoon telling stories and talking about Hemingway...
Bob Vila on the Finca Vigía Preservation Project
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast understands that we all can’t get together at El Floridita and while away the afternoon telling stories and talking about Hemingway...
One True Sentence #2 with Craig McDonald
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast asks Craig McDonald his choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Joseph M. Flora on "The Battler"
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we talk with esteemed scholar Joe Flora about "The Battler," Hemingway's classic Nick Adams story from In Our Time.Flora, wh...
One True Sentence #1 with Carl P. Eby
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast asks Carl P. Eby his choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Susan K. Harris on Mark Twain
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Green Hills of Africa, the 1935 account of his safari, Hemingway made his most enduring statement of literary criticism. He wrote that "all mo...
Elizabeth Outka on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In an episode that is unfortunately too timely, One True Podcast welcomes Elizabeth Outka to discuss the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, writers' respons...
James Plath on "Big Two-Hearted River"
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast is pleased to go down to the river with James Plath, Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, to discuss one of Hemingwa...
Jerry Fielder and Anne E. Havinga on the Karsh Photograph
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we welcome to the show Jerry Fielder and Anne E. Havinga to discuss Yousuf Karsh's portrait of Hemingway, which is without a dou...
Andrew Farah on Hemingway's Brain
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of One True Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrew Farah, author of Hemingway’s Brain, who argues that Hemingway was misdiagnosed and ...
Lesley Blume on The Sun Also Rises
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lesley Blume joins One True Podcast to discuss Everybody Behaves Badly, her bestselling profile of the background of The Sun Also Rises. Blume tal...
Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis on Cuba
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast continues its exploration of the places that defined Hemingway and that Hemingway helped define. We return to Cuba, joined by Jeffrey...
Scott Donaldson on the Iceberg Theory
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we welcome Scott Donaldson, the legendary Hemingway biographer, to discuss the iceberg principle of writing. He explores the function ...
Mark Thompson on the Italian Front of WWI
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the brilliant historian Mark Thompson, author of the magisterial The White War, separates fact from fiction as he analyzes Hemingway&...
Marc Dudley on Race
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One True Podcast took the occasion of Toni Morrison’s death to consider the way race emerges as a key factor in Hemingway’s writing. In this episo...
Scholar's Spotlight: Susan Beegel on the Maine Marlin
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the inimitable Susan Beegel joins producer Michael Von Cannon for a special "Scholar's Spotlight" episode.Beegel tells...
Stacy Keach on Playing Hemingway
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stacy Keach joins the show to reflect on his legendary career, particularly his portrayal of Hemingway on the stage, in the classic miniseries, and in...
Alex Vernon on War
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Vernon joins the show to discuss one of Hemingway’s major themes: men at war. He penetrates the myth of Hemingway-as-warmonger, isolates some...
Julia Sweig on Cuba
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a journey into the culture and history of Cuba. Given the undeniable importance of Cuba in Hemingway’s life and legacy, Hemingway re...
James McGrath Morris on John Dos Passos
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore Hemingway and John Dos Passos, their service in the American Red Cross during World War I, their writing careers, and thei...
Kirk Curnutt on F. Scott Fitzgerald
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show places Ernest Hemingway alongside one of his artistic contemporaries: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Part friendship and part rivalry, their...