Of Hemingway, Castro and Che

By Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D. Following publication of his book, The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro, Humberto Fontova gave an interview to The Daily Caller that was turned into an excellent article published on September 4, 2013. The article generated considerable attention, an eye-opening exposé on the embarrassing tidbits it brought … Read more

Ernest Hemingway’s Suicide Shotgun. What’s Left of It . . .

Garden and Gun magazine doesn’t really feature a great deal of either. Mostly it’s the same eye candy for fashionista forty-somethings that you’ll find in most major metropolitan mags. Occasionally, they go ballistic. In this case, it’s a feature on a new book by Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, and Roger Sanger: Hemingway’s Guns. Surprisingly, G&G leaves talk of Papa’s hunting rifles and shotguns, and dives straight into the tale of the weapon that ended the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer’s life. I mean, the gun the writer used to end his life with. With which he ended his life. At the risk of seeming crass (heaven forfend), it seems Hemingway’s head wasn’t the only thing that ended-up in pieces . . .

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