I must confess that not many women
early on dared to say that they read Hemingway
let alone wrote about him
Even my mother-in-law used to
look me in the eye
and say 'Linda, how can you write about that
dirty old man! He was a slob!'
I think Hemingway more than any other writer
has a stereotypical image that's been passed on
throughout years after his death
and I suspect that not a whole lot of people read
Hemingway, they think they know Hemingway
but they know the image of Hemingway
But they don't really know Hemingway's art.
One of the things I've been trying to do is
bring Hemingway's art to people
so that they dare to step into the text
and experience it live because in his art
he was creating the 'lived' life
and when you step into his text
it's like stepping into a room
where you know something has happened
but you can't quite pin it down
