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Ernest Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro [Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming, eds.]

The name “Kilimanjaro” calls up our most vivid images of Africa, the great mountain rising above the teeming savannas as Gregory Peck struggles up its flanks. That is, indeed, an image that comes to us from Ernest Hemingway, by way … Continue reading

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Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon has long been one of my favorite American authors, ever since the local librarian in our small town objected to allowing me, all of seventeen years old (and a very skinny, gawky, naïve seventeen, at that), to borrow … Continue reading

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Jameson Currier: The Wolf at the Door

Start with a loose-around-the-edges guesthouse, Le Petit Paradis, in the French Quarter. Add a collection of gay men, co-owners, former owner, and staff, of various ages from toothsome twenties to frowzy forties. Mix in various combinations of lovers, ex-lovers, current … Continue reading

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