January 17

When Hemingway met Salinger

October 3

Big Read a big deal for KC

Kansas City will join more than 100 cities this fall in the Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts that encourages Americans to read and discuss a single book within their communities.

September 27

Star style and rules for writing

Below are excerpts from The Kansas City Star stylebook that Ernest Hemingway once credited with containing "the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing."

September 27

Events celebrate Hemingway

September 27

In year of centennial, many coming to grips with formidable literary force

He was born on July 21, 1899, and died by his own hand on another July day 62 years later. In the intervening years, his life not only paralleled the rise of the "American century," he helped define it.

September 27

Hemingway on film

All but two of Hemingway's novels have been made into movies since the 1930s, some of them more than once.

September 27

Hemingway's Key West has, and has not, changed

Harry Morgan, the angry boat captain at the center of Ernest Hemingway's 1930s novel To Have and Have Not, struggled against the forces of economic change.

September 27

From his time to ours, Hemingway still speaks

You'd think that a book called In Our Time and written some 80 years ago might have scant interest for readers in our time. Today, that is.

September 27

The lure of Hemingway's Cuba

Sportswriter Wright Thompson and photographer John Sleezer traveled to Cuba earlier this year for The Star's special baseball sections. While there - and this was before political tensions re-emerged between Cuba and the United States - they tracked the legacy of Ernest Hemingway for Star Magazine.

September 27

Ernest Hemingway: A selected bibliography

September 27

Some Hemingway resources

In addition to True at First Light and Michael Reynolds' biography, Ernest Hemingway: The Final Years, these new, reissued and forthcoming books will be of interest to Hemingway aficionados this year.

September 27

Contemporary writers on Hemingway

September 27

Susan Whitmore: My problem with Hemingway

It was a propitious moment. I was in graduate school, living in the Netherlands, and tasked with reading Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms for a course in American literature.

September 27

Susan Beegel: What I like about Hemingway

What I like best about Hemingway is his devotion to that credo. Throughout his remarkable body of fiction, he tells the truth about human fear, guilt, betrayal, violence, cruelty, drunkenness, hunger, greed, apathy, ecstasy, tenderness, love and lust.

September 27

Biographer to speak in Kansas City

Michael Reynolds, a biographer who has been writing about Ernest Hemingway for more than 25 years, will speak July 8 at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

September 27

Preparing for War and Writing

On a fast track to manhood and making his way in the world, Ernest Hemingway began working at The Kansas City Star in the middle of October 1917. The United States had begun training troops for the brutal war under way in Europe.

September 27

Of `Star Style' and a reporter named Hemingway

In 1915, the sinking of the Lusitania received exceptional play in The Star. A two-column headline announced the tragedy, the first of many in the next few years. The European powers plunged deeper into war, drawing the United States inexorably toward the trenches, which already snaked across the fields of eastern France.

September 27

The Hemingway barbecue connection

We love our icons, and we love our barbecue, and it's fabulously synergistic when our icons and our barbecue intersect. Ernest Hemingway never wrote about Kansas City barbecue.

September 27

Annotation added to Hemingway history

Ernest Hemingway's Kansas City experience was highlighted in the newspaper last week, and there is a footnote that must be addressed because it involves a correction.

September 27

A Writer's Haunts: Where He Worked and Where He Lived

Ernest Hemingway lived and worked in Kansas City for more than a year, if all his trips here are added together.