Podcasts about Hills Like White Elephants

Hello! It's been awhile but we are back to talk books. We start by knocking off the rust with random observations (longtime listeners will know this a ruse to not become too successful) before we delve into Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants." After that we nominate a great collection of books to add to our famous TBR. (We add more than one...)As always thanks for listening and happy reading!Books Added:Ripley Under Ground by Patricia HighsmithTurn, Magic Wheel by Dawn PowellContact Us:Instagram @therewillbbooksTwitter @therewillbbooksEmail willbebooks@gmail.comGoodreads: Therewillbebooksko-fi.com/therewillbbookspatreon.com/therewillbbooks

The great Italian scholar Martina Mastandrea, who spoke with us in 2023 to discuss "In Another Country," joins us again to talk about another Hemingway tale: "Out of Season."After Mastandrea treats us to an Italian rendition of the opening to "Out of Season," we explore many aspects of the story, including its biographical inspiration, connections to other Hemingway texts (like "Cat in the Rain" and "Hills Like White Elephants"), the role Cortina plays as a setting, and ways to read the famous ending.  This celebrated story is always in-season, so please join us as Martina Mastandrea guides us through it!

Throughout the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway was in the public eye as a journalist, short story writer, activist, and one of the most famous writers on the planet. But his 1937 novel To Have and Have Not fell flat, and critics wondered if the Hemingway who could write a novel on the level of The Sun Also Rises (1926) or A Farewell to Arms (1929) still existed. All that changed with the publication in 1940 of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Widely read and widely acclaimed, the story of the idealist Robert Jordan in the Spanish Civil War has long been admired (and at times ridiculed) for its depiction of military heroism and wartime romance. But in spite of the criticism that continues to swirl around the novel, its prominence as one of the indispensable masterpieces of war literature has never been in doubt. In this episode, Jacke talks to editor Alex Vernon about his line-by-line analysis of For Whom the Bell Tolls for the Reading Hemingway series. PLUS Sandra Spanier (series editor of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway project) stops by to discuss her choice for the last book she will ever read. Additional listening: 633 Hemingway's Letters (with Sandra Spanier) 627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino) 162 Ernest Hemingway The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at gabrielruizbernal.com.   Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For almost sixty years, Norman Mailer was a fixture on the American literary scene, seemingly as well known for his feuds and personal exploits as he was for his prize-winning novels and groundbreaking journalism. But what was the man really like? As the Library of America commemorates the life and career of Norman Mailer with an edition of his early masterpiece The Naked and the Dead, Jacke talks to the editor of that book, J. Michael Lennon, who was intimately associated with Mailer as both friend and professional colleague. Enjoyed this episode? You might also like to try some of these from our archive: 627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino) 143 A Soldier's Heart - Teaching Literature at West Point (with Elizabeth Samet) Conflict Literature (with Matt Gallagher) Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's one of the most famous and admired short stories that Ernest Hemingway ever wrote - and also one of the most controversial. In this episode, Hemingway expert Mark Cirino (host of the One True Podcast) joins Jacke for a discussion of "Hills Like White Elephants," in which a terse exchange between two lovers in a remote Spanish train station reveals a profound moral and existential crisis. (NOTE: Never read the story? Or maybe it's been a while? Fear not! The episode also contains a reading of the story, to bring you back up to speed.) Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Becoming A Household Name is a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Success is doing what you want to do on your terms. Some people define it slightly differently as doing what I want with who I want when I want.The dictionary defines success in the following ways: noun - a favorable or desired outcome / the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence / the accomplishment of an aim or purpose / the accomplishment of one's goals.At its most basic level, you can view success as hearing my voice. You pulled up your podcast app, found my broadcast, and played this episode. I prefer Spotify. You might prefer Apple or Podbean, but the fact that you are listening to this episode means you had success.This is important, because in the broader sense, we all define success subjectively. Your success would not be your significant other's success or your brother's success or your daughter's success, though you may have shared successes where desires overlap. If fidelity is a marker of success for you, and your significant other value monogamy, you share that success when you limit your romantic interactions to one another, however even within that overlapping success, you'll define success subjectively.You might hold the opinion that viewing images of naked people does not violate monogamy while your significant other might view reading romance novels as acceptable, and in both cases, one of you is finding arousal from projections outside of each other.You might find it romantic when your significant other surprises you with a clean house when you return from work, and your significant other might find a gift of flowers romantic, but if you receive flowers, it might seem like extra work and a waste of money.And before we dive into the broader subject, let's examine one more angle to success. Success is being true to yourself. Yes, that's another way of phrasing the original definition: doing what you want on your terms.The reason it's important to belabor this is because when me get into the murky middle, we're going to have an unbelievable hard time translating information in useful ways so we can orient ourselves to success.To make the point, let me tell you a story:You define success as having intimacy with your significant other, and you know about yourself that it's effective to get you in an intimate mood to receive flowers from your partner, but one day your significant other comes home without flowers and yet tries to romance you by completing a chore around the house.You decide to read a little steamy romance while your significant other is cleaning, because you want to be in the mood, but the book gets you all hot and bothered, and you tease out a blustering curtains so that when it's time for a little pillow talk, you're not really in the mood, but you definitely feel you can help satisfy your significant other's desire because your significant other did something nice for you.Meanwhile, your significant other defines success as bringing you to the curtains blustering moment, but since you already popped, you have to act blustered when in fact you aren't.Becoming A Household Name is a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.You conclude your bedroom time and tell yourself everything was magical and everyone is happy, but you feel strangely dissatisfied, and your no telepath, but you feel your significant other is perhaps just a little let down too.At that moment, you have choices: redefine success, blame your significant other for failing to meet your needs, or take responsibility for what you did that led to failure.If you choose options one or two, you fit nicely in the majority, and if you're in the majority, you probably doubled down and chose both options. You blamed your significant other, then decided that if they were at fault, you'd have to redefine success so you could get what you want.Maybe this example will ring true to you in another scenario.Let's say you woke up with a dream to be the next Ernest Hemingway. That awakening happened after you read "Hills Like White Elephants."You recognized the power of the story, its subtlety, its character depth, its tension, stakes, and implications, and from that awakening you committed yourself to writing a story that would speak to readers the way that story spoke to you.But when you set out to make that dream a success, you began to realize "Hills Like White Elephants" is deceptively simple.You write a few stories, and they all fall flat. In this choose your own adventure you can blame Hemingway for deceiving you and jettison your goal to be his heir or you can redefine your interpretation of the goal. But either way, you fail to achieve your first vision of success.The third option, one very few people take, is to accept responsibility for your shortcomings and turn back to the page to write more, live more, and improve until you can write that story of yours just the way you dreamed of it.For the sake of the story, let's say you choose to take responsibility, and you keep writing with the goal of becoming Hemingway's heir. You get a handful of publications, and people start to discuss your talent. You land a literary agent by querying hundreds, but when you shop your book, no publishers bite.As you begin to scrape the bottom of the publisher barrel, you recognize that your book, even if it is picked up, will have little visibility and less hype. You can then choose to blame the industry for valuing upmarket work like Twilight, or you can adapt to the market trends and abandon your Hemingway dream.Either way, you compromise success.Or suppose you choose the third road, and you accept responsibility for your failure to get a contract, and you study the niche Hemingway fit in and work like mad to improve your writing so the next volume of stories will wow your audience.If you choose option three again, you're in rarified air, but still you're galaxies removed from Hemingway in a place called the murky middle.In the murky middle, you'll find the path forward harder to see. Blame lurks around every corner as does redefining success. You'll travel both paths accidentally and be forced to double back regularly. You'll find several paths that appear to lead to distant places, but which might actually end up in the same place. What you'll learn is that authors in today's world are held responsible for their own marketing, branding, public relations, and even social engagements, and so, even though you've managed to choose the Hemingway path, this far, you'll be forced to do things that feel like distractions from the success you have so far followed to the letter.But you know that if social media reach can get you a contract with a big publisher, you need to do it. With the same naive optimism by which you entered the battlefield of writing, you'll start an Instagram profile.And with the same dawning dread, you'll realize those posts you thought looked so simple are far harder to create than you thought, bringing you right back to the place of blame or redefining success. You'll doubtless want to blame Hemingway again, saying he never had to use Instagram, and you'll be tempted to redefine success by saying social media just isn't your game so you have to settle for small presses and maybe an adjunct position teaching up-and-coming writers.Or maybe you'll accept responsibility for your failures and learn how to make great reels that reach vast audiences. But even as you develop social media prowess, you have to keep writing, because you're still not Hemingway. Now you have two careers, and here's where it gets wild.Because you've never given up on your dream of being Hemingway's heir, and you've learned how to play the social media game in service of that, you begin to earn brand deals. Coca Cola gives you twenty thousand dollars to promote their soda in your content. Vans sees you wearing their shoes and sponsors your channel.You become an influencer, and you start to think this life might not be bad.Meanwhile, you get that sweet publishing contract you'd been hustling for, but the advance on royalties is a shabby five thousand dollars. Your book hits the bestseller list for a few weeks, and you learn that in eighteen months you'll receive a check in the mail for another ten thousand dollars.Your publisher offers you a six-figure contract if you can write two books in two years, but they retain first right of refusal, and by the way, if your book flops, you will be axed from the publisher and forgotten.This all terrifies you and you realize with dread that when you sit to write, you can't produce because now someone else gets to tell you how success is measured.At the same time, you keep creating social media content and your brand deals are pulling mid six figures that are deposited in your account weekly, but when a reel fails to go viral, you lose sleep because you're so scared you've lost the algorithm.Worst of all, people know your name and face, and the sheer volume of shittalk swirling about how you're a poser and a capitalist pig begins to crush you.Becoming A Household Name is a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.You decide if you can outsource some of the headaches by hiring an executive assistant you can get back to what matters, but as soon as you do that, you discover with dread that now you're a boss, an influencer, and a writer. Hemingway definitely didn't have to worry about that.Now we could stay here in the murky middle, but if we do, we'll miss something critical, and that's the shining headstone.Yep, you're going to die, and when you do, your headstone will summarize your life. For the purposes of this story, we'll assume no one gets cremated.If you visit Ernest Hemingway's grave, you'll read these words: "Here lies the finest author of all time. He blew his brains out because he hated life more than he loved it."Okay, that's farce. I have no idea what his headstone says, and even if I could look it up, I'm not going to, because the point is salient. Hemingway achieved what you set out to achieve and it gave him no gratification.We could talk mental health all day, but the fact remains: Hemingway's success failed to bring him joy.Imagine if he'd ever chose another adventure. Imagine if he'd redefined success. What if he'd said, accolades mean little, and happiness means everything. Perhaps we'd never have had A MOVABLE FEAST, but instead we'd have grandpa Hemingway, a ninety-two year-old family man who wrote a few works of great note and a shelf full of rip-roaring yarns you love and quickly forget.Maybe grandpa Hemingway is preferable, or maybe we should accept Idaho Hemingway, the self-murdered great.But however you define success, understand it comes with a cost.I decided after six years of dogged pursuit, trying to get a publishing deal at FSG that I needed to adapt my methods. When I decided that, I had to accept that success might look different for me. At the same time, I've kept my eye on inroads to the original goal.While I self-publish my books, I continue to brainstorm ways to attract conventional publishers. I'm in the thick of the murky middle without clear answers on how to make my work pop.I've taken countless wrong turns, given up on numerous book ideas, fielded hundreds of rejections, and questioned my sanity almost daily. My in-laws think me cooky, and if you got my wife to open up, she'd probably say I'm delusional, but I've never abandoned my dream of success, and that's all I have to offer.See, when my headstone is being carved, then you'll be able to say either he did what he set out to do or he didn't do what he set out to do, but unless I quit trying, success is forever pushed out to the never-coming future.And we've travelled this journey together to arrive at this point. At the center of it all, there's just this: You have no control over the moment, the method, the person or people, or the way.Be as clever as you want. Master social media or don't. Smile at your neighbors or the person in front of you in line at Chipotle. Write a personal note to every reader of your books. Attend a hundred networking events, or hole up in your house and watch Netflix. As long as you accept responsibility for your shortcomings and continue working, your success is ensured. Let God or the universe or the oneness of consciousness take care of the details. Keep working.PS:I heard it first from Gary Vee, and it belongs here. You are already somebody. Right now, right here, today, you are someone. Success doesn't validate you or define you.And, from the very same man. Stop complaining, dick! Get to work. You have only yourself to blame. Get full access to Becoming A Household Name at jodyjsperling.substack.com/subscribe

Sarah Kain Gutowski is the author of Fabulous Beast and along with interdisciplinary artist Meredith Starr, she's co-creator of Every Second Feels Like Theft, a conversation in cyanotypes and poems, and It's All Too Much, a limited edition podcast and art project. She's out now with a new book of narrative poetry, The Familiar. In today's episode, Sarah and Annmarie discuss the ache of literary ambition, how parenthood divides us from ourselves, and how Moonstruck is one of the best movies of all time. Episode Sponsor: Zora's Den – Dedicated to empowering the lives of Black women writers. At Zora's Den, we host a monthly reading series, conduct workshops, and invite writers to share their work-in-progress for feedback and constructive criticism. Our hope is to build a sisterhood of writers at every level of accomplishment and to strengthen the voices of the unheard and unacknowledged. If you're a Black woman writer, you're welcome to join us. Learn more at zorasden.com. Split Rock Books – A locally-owned, independently-minded neighborhood bookstore located in the heart of the Hudson Valley. Split Rock carries a curated selection of new books with a focus on literary fiction and non-fiction, small presses, local interest, and children's books. We host a variety of family programming, book clubs, readings, signings and discussions. And we're located steps from the Cold Spring train station, which is just over an hour from New York City. Learn more or shop online at splitrockbks.com. Titles Discussed in this Episode: The Familiar, by Sarah Kain Gutowski Fabulous Beast, by Sarah Kain Gutowski  Kate Bush's album 50 Words for Snow One of Annmarie and Sarah's favorite scenes from the movie Moonstruck. Hills Like White Elephants, a short story by Ernest Hemingway. ​ Follow Sarah Kain Gutowski: Instagram: @sarahkaingutowski Twitter: @skgutowski Facebook: /sarahkaingutowskiauthor TikTok: @sarahkaingutowski Email: sarah.kain.gutowski [at] gmail.com Website: https://www.sarahkaingutowski.com Photo credit: Priyanca Rao Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Notes and Links to Sarah Rose Etter's Work      For Episode 223, Pete welcomes Sarah Rose Etter, and the two discuss, among other topics, her early relationship to the written word, formative and transformative writers and writing, her love of writing in translation, her and Pete's shared love of Hemingway's short stories, and seeds for and salient themes related to Ripe, including housing and economic inequalities and realities, depression and anxiety as represented by the book's “black hole,” parental/child relationships, and grief.   Sarah Rose Etter is the author of RIPE (published by Scribner), and The Book of X, winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award. Her short fiction collection, Tongue Party, was selected by Deb Olin Unferth to be published as the winner of the 2011 Caketrain Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in TIME, Guernica, BOMB, Gulf Coast, The Cut, VICE, and more.  She has been awarded residences at the Jack  Kerouac House, the Disquiet International program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. In 2017, she was the keynote speaker at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference in Bordeaux, France, where she presented on surrealist writing as a mode of feminism. She earned her B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and her M.F.A. in Fiction from Rosemont College. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.   Buy Ripe   Sarah's Website   New York Times Review of Ripe by Alexandra Chang   NPR Interview   At about 2:00, Sarah shouts out the literary landscape and physical landscape  At about 2:45, Sarah talks about her childhood relationship with the written word At about 4:30, Pete and Sarah exchange formative stories and writing that opened up analytical and emotional taps, including Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” and “Cat in the Rain,” as well as Plath's “Metaphors”  At about 5:40, Sarah talks about how and why she started writing with short stories At about 6:50, Sarah reflects on ideas of obsession with subject matter when writing At about 7:22, Sarah shares a few examples of chill-inducing writing for her as a reader At about 8:55, Sarah discusses contemporary writers who thrill and challenge her: Carmen Maria Machado, Hallie Butler, Kristen Arnett, Melissa Broder, and many works in translation, like Olga T At about 15:00, Sarah discusses seeds for Ripe, including how her personal life and the world's recent issues informed the book At about 19:00, Pete and Sarah talk about grief and sharing At about 22:10, Pete sets the book's exposition, and Sarah gives background on the powerful and meaningful first line of the book At about 25:30, Sarah and Pete compare notes on first draft and heavy editing  At about 27:15, The two discuss the black hole, a common symbol in the book At about 29:50, Pete compliments the ways in which Sarah presents the narrator Cassie and the frenzied Silicon Valley lifestyle At about 30:55, Sarah discusses the ways in which Cassie is the person she is due to her parents' influences At about 33:00, Sarah charts and breaks down a bit of her writing outlook and style and schedule  At about 34:30, Sarah references Parasite and Uncut Gems as examples of storytelling and escalating tensions as so powerful  At about 35:50, Sarah talks about her black hole research and earlier permutations of the black hole and its place in the book At about 37:50, Sarah responds to Pete's questions about a possible history of depression within Cassie's family and without At about 40:10, Sarah discusses the strengths and beauty of Cassie's relationship with her father, as well as some of his toxic qualities At about 41:20, Sarah discusses the issues revolving around money and the high cost of living At about 43:10, The two discuss the book's title and the symbolism of the pomegranate and ideas of mythical connections and underworlds At about 45:25, The two shout out Stephanie Feldman and connections between Ripe and Stephanie's Saturnalia At about 46:05, Pete references some cringy and skillful scenes involving the workplace At about 47:10, Sarah speaks on the often-unchecked CEOs and bigshots in tech companies At about 50:05, Pete cites a few moments worthy of Cassie's “crystal jar”  At about 50:40, Pete reads and heaps praise upon a particularly profound and apt passage At about 52:20, Sarah reacts to Pete's question about the staying power of her book At about 54:45, Pete and Sarah discuss the book's ending At about 59:00, Sarah talks about exciting new projects      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    I am very excited that starting in February with Episode 220 with Neef Ekpoudom, I will have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review-I'm looking forward to the partnership!    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 224 with Peter Coviello, a scholar of American literature and queer theory, whose work addresses the entangled histories of sex, devotion, and intimate life in imperial modernity. He's also the author of six books, including Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things, which was selected for The Millions' “Most Anticipated” list for 2023.    The episode will air on February 20.

Spain, 1927: While waiting for a train, a young couple passes the time with drinks and observations, discussing everything they can think of before they must finally have the conversation they've been dreading. Cast (in speaking order): JESSICA LANGE as The Narrator SAMI GAYLE as The Girl JOSH JOHNSTON as The MAN MARILYN CASERTA as The Waitress with SAM TSOUTSOUVAS, the voice of RPR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a LibriVox public domain recording. Hemingway's second collection of short fiction, first published in 1927, including many of his best-known stories, including "Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Killers" - Summary by James Hutchisson --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/colin-holbrook/support

Is “Hills Like White Elephants” Hemingway's greatest short story ever, or only his most famous?  Bolstering the case for “Hills Like White Elephants” as the G.O.A.T., esteemed scholar Russ Pottle joins us to explain the story's composition, imagery, historical and biographical contexts, and unforgettable dialogue.Pottle helps us read between the lines in the ways Hemingway characterizes Jig and the American through their dialogue and their silence, and through their actions. We figure out exactly how one can wait “reasonably” for a train, and what Hemingway means by the ambiguous ending when Jig says she “feels fine.” And would you please please please please please please please listen for a special guest appearance from old friend Miriam Mandel?  

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Episode 152 Notes and Links to Tommy Dean's Work       On Episode 152 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Tommy Dean, and the two discuss, among other topics, his reading trajectory which started with sports biographies and has branched out in many directions, his start writing in undergrad, his views of flash fiction vs. short shorts, the craft of writing flash fiction, Tommy's recurring themes and development as a writer, and inspiring works by Tobias Wolff and other titans of the trade.      Tommy Dean lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. He is the author of a flash fiction chapbook entitled Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. He is the Editor at Fractured Lit. He has been previously published in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His story “You've Stopped” was chosen by Dan Chaon to be included in Best Microfiction 2019. It will also be included in Best Small Fiction 2019. His interviews have been previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, and The Town Crier (The Puritan). Find him @TommyDeanWriter on Twitter.   Tommy Dean's Website   Buy Hollows    A.E. Weisberger Reviews Special Like the People on TV   “Past Lives” Story from Atlas and Alice Magazine-2020   “You've Stopped” from Pithead Chapel   2017 Mini-Interview with Megan Giddings   At about 7:30, Tommy discusses her early reading (a lot of sports and biographies and horror and “heavy genre”) and writing, with the writing mostly coming after undergrad    At about 10:00, the two discuss character as seen in these shared sports biographies   At about 11:30, Tommy describes his love for the library and its easy access to Sports Illustrated/SI for Kids   At about 12:30, Tommy and Pete discuss their shared loves for basketball and baseball, the former especially    At about 14:25, Tommy gives background on how he came to become interested in flash fiction/short shorts   At about 17:20, Tommy responds to Pete's questions about how he has honed his craft   At about 19:00, Tommy describes what it is about flash fiction that appeals to him   At about 19:50, Tommy differentiates between “flash fiction” and “short short”   At about 22:50, Tommy gives some of the formative texts, literary journals (like SmokeLong Quarterly and Vestal Review)  and writers that are classics of the flash fiction forms, like Stuart Dybek, Dan Chaon, Robin Black and “Pine,” and Elizabeth Tallent and her story, “No One's a Mystery”   At about 27:00, Pete recounts the connections between the podcast title and Tobias Wolff's “Bullet in the Brain”   At about 28:30, Tommy discusses the power of flash in its granularity   At about 29:30, The two discuss Hemingway and his “interludes” or works that could be classified as “flash”; they also discuss breaking convention   At about 34:20, Pete corrects himself on the pivotal line that inspired the podcast title   At about 35:10, Pete cites a powerful use of understatement from Elie Wiesel's Night   At about 36:30, Tommy talks about how teaching/editing inform his writing, and vice versa   At about 42:35, Pete quotes interviews with Tommy and Megan Giddings and talks about his “lifejackets” as character    At about 44:00, Pete references powerful opening lines from Tommy and asks about the connections between title and subject matter; Tommy talks about work that became awarded and his process   At about 45:35, Tommy talks about his philosophy of dialogue in flash fiction   At about 47:15, Tommy explains conscious choices in using quotation marks or not   At about 48:30, Pete and Tommy discuss the idea that dialogue to begin a story is fraught; Pete provides an example of a short he wrote that     At about 52:15, Pete highlights a stunning open line from “Past Lives”; Tommy gives real-life connections to the story before reading it   At about 55:45, Tommy describes an “in” for writers involving unique characters   At about 56:45, Tommy talks about his two chapbooks   At about 57:15, Pete reads a review from the first collection and talks about themes of childlessness and craft shared by Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” and Tommy's early writing   At about 59:15, Tommy responds to Pete's questions about development as a writer between his first and most recent collections; he traces his development via “cuts” and themes used    At about 1:03:20, Pete shares a reader's review of Tommy's Hollows and Tommy discusses why he appreciates these particular sentiments   At about 1:05:25, Tommy reads “Baby Alone”   At about 1:14:30, Tommy gives out his social media and contact info, including Alternate Currents and ELJ Editions    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 153 with Luivette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, and proudly raised in the Bronx. A CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow, and Pushcart Prize nominee, she is on the Board of Directors for Women Who Submit.      The episode will air on November 22.

Is it first or third person? Past or present tense?As you'll see in this week's podcast episode, Point of View is about way more than this.See more here:https://storygrid.com/point-of-view/A story's global Point of View includes the technical choices writers make to deliver the story to the reader. The POP premise and Narrative Device suggest Point of View combinations that create the effect of the story told by the Author to the single Audience member.Person refers to the vantage point from which the written story is presented the reader.First Person: I (or we) wrote a story.Second Person: You wrote a story.Third Person: Alex (or she or he or they) wrote a story.Tense distinguishes the timeframe of the story.Past: I wrote a scene.Present: You write (or are writing) a scene.Future: Alex will write a scene.Mode: The final technical choice focuses on how the information is presented. This is the storytelling Mode.Showing is an objective and immediate mode that creates the effect of being present and observing the events of the story. Here are some examples.First Person: The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsSecond Person: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyThird Person: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, or “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest HemingwayTelling is a subjective mode that readers experience as if someone or something is collecting, collating, and sharing the events and circumstances of the story.First Person: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, or Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen FieldingSecond Person: “How to Be an Other Woman” by Lorrie Moore.Third Person: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, Animal Farm by George Orwell, or Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherListen as Shawn Coyne, Tim Grahl, Leslie Watts, and Danielle Kiowski work through the Point of View for the the short story EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain: https://www.amazon.com/McBain-Brief-Ed-ebook/dp/B01KFBQEY4/This is a Episode 254 of the Story Grid Podcast - https://storygrid.com/podcast

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We're just two-bit podcasters, that's all we'll ever be. Grammys trivia, Rolling Stone cover photos, gatefold vinyl sleeves, under what circumstances one might fabricate family members, how this song would look as an episode of LAW & ORDER…the list goes on. Also discussed: Sydney Greenstreet, THE OUTSIDERS, “Hills Like White Elephants,” and John Denver again. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podsounds/support

In a way that only he can, Ernest Hemingway uses a literary device known as the Iceberg Theory to tell stories that lead readers to personal, emotional conclusions. In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants," Hemingway alludes to abortion without ever saying the word or even mentioning a baby. In this story, you'll hear a man and woman talking over beer and liquor at a bar in Spain while they wait for a train. The emotional space between them is tense. Another character is present—a character whose life is on the line. Today's episode is a little different than Life, Liberty, and Law's typical programing—it is a reading of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," sharing this timeless and timely short story and the lessons it imparts.

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 Elephants."

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 Elephants."

In this episode, Christina talks about mindset. She shares how she had the looks, the money and the career, but was still unhappy and hated herself, and her transition to loving herself and her daily life. She still has struggles, but they have gone from bad days to bad moments. She offers some strategies that anyone can use in their own life to start living a life they love.  BioChristina Lecuyer is a former professional golfer turned Confidence and Success Coach, Motivational Speaker, and Host of “Decide It's Your Turn: The Podcast”. Through one-on-one coaching, mastermind programs, immersive events such as “Decide It's Your Turn: Live” and “Decide It's Your Turn: The Retreat”; Christina helps you shatter limiting beliefs, become more confident, and holds you accountable to creating and executing your most purposeful and profitable life!  Christina Lecuyer Resources:Follow Christina on InstagramDecide It's Your Turn: The PodcastConfidence + Success CoachingWomen with CLASS MastermindBook Christina For Your Next Speaking Engagement Follow Candace on IG

Candace believes in the magic a story can hold. Each week she will share a personal story, a guest interview or a conversation on various topics that will leave you enlightened, ignited and inspired.  Her hope is that you walk away from every episode changed, even if it's in the most subtle way. Follow Candace on IG

A reading of Hills Like White Elephants

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Today we look at Ernest Hemingway's most popular short stories, "The Hills Like White Elephants." It can be difficult to talk about but let's talk about some of the literary aspects of how Hemingway writes his stories and characters. Ernest Hemingway Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4KSU7OdgM&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YB0TTfiXg0X_juRB2-GlyXO Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Link to Listen for Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V9flQiEFQ ================================= Books or Stories Mentioned in this Video: Channels Mentioned in this Video: Lezlie@TheNerdyNarrative: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVXw-rVWALBklE2syuN4myw ================================= Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit your entry here: https://forms.gle/41VvksZTKBsxUYQMA You can reach us on Social Media: ▶ http://instagram.com/thecodexcantina ▶ http://twitter.com/thecodexcantina #ErnestHemingway #HillsLikeWhiteElephants TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:00 Introductions 0:41 Publication Info 0:55 Hemingway's Style 3:32 Summary 3:57 Analysis 16:30 Wrap Up and Ratings ====Copyright Info==== Song: Infinite Artist: Valence Licensed to YouTube by: AEI (on behalf of NCS); Featherstone Music (publishing), and 1 Music Rights Societies Free Download/Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHoqD47gQG8 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecodexcantina/support

Walter Bowne takes us to the train station on the line from Barcelona to Madrid to understand the conversation of this very troubled couple.

Walter Bowne gets his wife to stop what she was doing to help record this audio of Hemingway's short story. So what is the "it"? that the couple are talking about, anyway?

Brian comes back to discuss "Hills Like White Elephants"—Ernest Hemingway's groundbreaking 1927 short story.

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It’s been a long month away from the show and the viewer messages have been pouring in! Where have you gone to? Where is our Addy Daddy? Are all these missteps in programming just a ploy to quit?? Addison gets candid about the questions regarding our last episode. Nicholas lashes out at a listener (and former coworker) on a bad day. Nicholas discusses plans to write a book about the Garden City, KS music scene. We’re back by semi-popular demand!!! (Music by: “Hills Like White Elephants” by The Stiletto Formal.) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talldarkandrandom/support

This month, Dave Pezza is joined by none other than Daniel Ford, author and host of the Writer’s Bone podcast. Daniel returns once again to NovelClass to discuss a pair of short story collections titled Men Without Women. This first is Ernest Hemingway’s famous collection, first published in 1927. The second is by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, originally published in the Japanese in 2014. First published in 1927 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Ernest Hemingway’s Men Without Women was Hemingway’s second short story collection and is not only considered to be one of the American literary icon’s best works, but also features stories such as “Hills Like White Elephants,” which have become part of the American Literary canon. At the heart of this collection, Hemingway dissects and investigates the forlorn and difficult lives of men who have lost, misunderstood, or ben alienated from the women in their lives. Originally published in the Japanese in 2014, Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women cleverly titles itself against Hemingway’s famous collection, deriving using many of the same themes and disillusionment. However, Murakami’s collection offers a much more nuanced look into the motivations and emotions of his male characters who continually find themselves navigating the lonely and confusing state of being a man without women. Please enjoy our discussion of Men Without Women. This month's episode is sponsored by OneRoom.

Do you love writing dialogue, or do you find it challenging...or both? I discuss why writing dialogue is my favorite part of the writing process, and explore ways in which you can hone your listening and dialogue-writing skills. Let me know what you think! Email me at marisadellefarfalle@gmail.com, or leave me a voice message via Anchor (under one minute, please). Also, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to rate & review me on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher...it'll help more people find out about the show! Helpful links: “How to Write Dialogue: 6 Tips for Writing Powerful Dialogue”: https://thinkwritten.com/writing-powerful-dialogue/ “Writing Dialogue: 10 Rules for Sounding Like a Pro,” by Harvey Chapman: https://www.novel-writing-help.com/writing-dialogue.html “Top 12 Tips for Writing Dialogue,” by Ginny Wiehardt: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/top-tips-for-writing-dialogue-1277070 “3 Writing ‘Cheats’ for Making Dialogue Work Harder & Ring True,” by Ami Hendrickson: https://museinks.blogspot.com/2012/03/3-writing-cheats-for-making-dialogue.html “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=bW9oYXdrc2Nob29scy5vcmd8aG9vZ3N0cmF0ZW58Z3g6M2I0NzYwYTA2YmVlMTUyZA Screenplay,by Syd Field: https://sydfield.com/products/screenplay-the-foundations-of-screenwriting/

Matt and I discuss Hemingway, the crucifixion, Jesus' life and ministry, the resurrection, and more... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Like_White_Elephants

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, Anjali Enjeti and Lacy Johnson speak with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about recent news and legislation about abortion, as well as its depiction in literature and film. Guests: ●      Lacy Johnson ●      Anjali Enjeti Readings for the Episode: ●      “Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology? Lacy Johnson on Rachel Louise Snyder and the Ways We Name Violence,” on LitHub ●      The Reckonings by Lacy Johnson ●      “Governor Kemp Is Turning Georgia Into Gilead,” by Anjali Enjeti in Dame Magazine, April 1, 2019 ●      “Borderline,” by Anjali Enjeti, from Prime Number Magazine No. 79 ●      Abortion Bans: 8 States Have Passed Bills to Limit the Procedure This Year ●      “Embryos Don't Have Hearts,” by Katie Heaney●      Invisible Sisters by Jessica Handler ●      Dirty Dancingdir. Emile Ardolino (1987) ●      The Mothers by Brit Bennett ●      The Cider House Rules by John Irving ●      Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates ●      “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway from Men Without Women ●      Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants” from “The Girl's” Point of View by Rachel Klein from McSweeney's Internet Tendency, July 21, 2017 ●      “Missouri could become first US state without an abortion clinic,” by Jessica Glenza, May 28, The Guardian. ●      “The Real Origins of the Religious Right” by Randall Balmer in Politico Magazine May 27, 2014 ●      Gwendolyn Brooks, “the mother” ●      Pro, by Katha Pollitt ●      The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood ●      Our Bodies, Ourselves ●      “An Abortion That Saved My Life,” by Susan Ito, in Refinery 29, January 22, 2015. ●      The Bible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was a tough week in bearcat country.   To get through this episode, your fearless hosts had to dig deep and feel feelings, which is a very overrated experience.  Fortunately, we were supported by the thoughtful words of our super fan, BearcatFan#1.   We also remember H.W. Bush, dance with the green fairy, pay a welfare check on Darrell Hammond, find out which host has more EQ, and ponder the existence of a Red Taped curse.  Please join us as we discuss Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. Drink: Absinthe Attributes and References: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ by Daniel Goleman: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26329.Emotional_Intelligence The EQ Factor by Nancy Gibbs: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,133181,00.html Without Emotional Intelligence Mindfulness Doesn’t Work by Daniel Goleman and Matthew Lippincott:  https://hbr.org/2017/09/sgc-what-really-makes-mindfulness-work Emotional Intelligence is Overrated by Adam Grant Ph.D. :  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-grant/emotional-intelligence-is_b_5915758.html Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite: Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again by Lisa Feldman Barrett: http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/emotional-intelligence-needs-a-rewrite Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13239950-hills-like-white-elephants Opening Music: Focus by A. A. Alto from the album Connections (CC BY NC)

How do human beings confront a crisis? Anne Kniggendorf and Matt Young join Brian for a conversation about Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants." In case you missed it: Tune in to Brian's interviews with Anne and Matt in previous episodes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-wilson5/support

On this episode, the third in our Hemingway Short Story Month, David and Nick are joined by Stephanie to discuss the oft-anthologized "Hills Like White Elephants," an anis-soaked, dialogue-heavy, purgatorial little number in which two characters talk around the possibility of an abortion and a doomed relationship.  Find the story, and give us a listen.  Follows us on Instagram & Twitter: @booksosubstance Check out our homepage: www.booksofsomesubstance.com   

This week's episode: "Hills Like White Elephants." This classic short story by Earnest Hemingway is widely considered most striking for everything that is revealed in the things are left unsaid. A man and a woman are waiting for the train to Barcelona. It is a hot afternoon. They are drinking beer at a bar and talking about the landscape, the weather, and whether or not the woman should have an abortion. Nothing is actually said about this last detail, but Hemingway's inference is as heavy as the still, hot afternoon air of the café, and his spare style allows the reader (or listener) to fill in the gaps, leaving to our imagination to resolve the deliberately open ending. This may be a short short story, but it is complex, as well as exquisitely crafted. Tune in and be transported! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Over the course of eleven books, including his latest novel, THE UNMADE WORLD, Steve Yarbrough has established himself as a master of language and place. But James knows him as the leader of the greatest workshop ever. They discuss that class at Sewanee, as well as being a Southern writer with a British aesthetic, structuring novels based on the football calendar, and getting poked in the stomach. Plus, Annie Hartnett on being more productive.    Steve Yarbrough: https://www.steveyarbrough.net/ Steve and James discuss: Sewanee Writers' Conference  Jill McCorkle  Johnny Carson  IN THE SHADOW OF 10,000 HILLS by Jennifer Haupt  THE GIRL FROM BLIND RIVER by Gale Massey  Bill Parcells  Jimmy Johnson  University of Arkansas  William Harrison  John Clellon Holmes  James Whitehead  Bill Belichick  Graham Greene  Emerson College Pamela Painter  Margot Livesey  THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry BOOKMARKED: LARRY McMURTRY'S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Steve Yarbrough (SY)  PRISONERS OF WAR by SY  THE END OF CALIFORNIA by SY  "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway  Ron Hansen  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE  Bill Evans  Raymond Carver  THE DIXIE ASSOCIATION by Donald "Skip" Hayes  Richard Yates  William Trevor  "Wildwood Flower" "Blowing up on the Spot" by Kevin Wilson (from PLOUGHSHARES, Winter 2003-4)  Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"  THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John LeCarre   Alice Munro  THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy  Gary Fisketjon  Greg Michalson Fred Ramey  Knopf  THE OXYGEN MAN by SY  The Harvard Book Store  Michael Nye  OBJECTS OF AFFECTION by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough Unbridled Books  - Annie Hartnett: http://www.anniehartnett.com/ Annie and James discuss: "If You Want to Write a Book, Write Every Day or Quit Now" by Stephen Hunter   "Why the Best Way to Get Creative Is to Make Some Rules" by Aimee Bender http://www.oprah.com/spirit/writing-every-day-writers-rules-aimee-bender/all#ixzz58vlFL9eU THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine  Sarah Shute  THE DEFINING DECADE by Meg Jay  ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King  DEEP WORK by Cal Newport  Anne Vogel  Benjamin Percy  THE SOUND OF MUSIC -  http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/            

On this episode of Weekend Reads, we debate about the elephant in the room (or the bar...) of Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants. Rating Pan 10/10 wire hangers Lisa 8.4/10 "please stop talking"s

"Temperature" is the recent "lost & found" short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which appears in the summer 2015 issue of Strand Magazine. The piece showcases the author's notable capabilities in the short story form, though it doesn't quite reveal itself to be something like a recovered masterpiece. The work dates from 1939 and contains some elements and themes that seem lifted directly from the last years of Fitzgerald's life (without too much embellishment). For more on this, check out our "Fitzgerald at the Movies - Last Call" episode. Follow @Infin8Gestation on Twitter • Visit InfiniteGestation.com Show Notes & Links "Temperature" by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Strand Magazine Andrew Gulli (Strand Editor) Fitzgerald at the Movies – Last Call (2002 Film) | Episode 015 The Deer Park by Norman Mailer "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008 film) - David Fincher Apocalypse Now (1979 Film) - Francis Ford Coppola Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Further reading (Fitzgerald): The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night The Beautiful and Damned Love of the Last Tycoon This Side of Paradise "Diamond as big as the Ritz" "May Day" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"  "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Babylon Revisited" Pat Hobby stories

You see a ghastly face at your window. Or did you? Sometimes you walk down the street and feel like no one can see you, but that's just your imagination, isn't it? Perhaps the accident has affected you more than you realized. Then you see it in the distance, an abandoned amusement park by the water. The signs say keep out, but you simply must get a closer look. Some strange force is drawing you to the Carnival of Souls! This Week's Topic: Give Me the Short Version Other Talking Points: Clifford the Big Red Dog, Rifftrax, Tom Waits, Igmar Bergman, David Lynch, George A. Romero, The Twilight Zone, Ace Ventura, Jim Carry, Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chris Farley, John Belushi, SNL, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes, The Marx Brothers, Roger Corman, Calvin and Hobbes, Lost (tv series), George Carlin, Dracula (novel) by Bram Stoker, The Sixth Sense, Goosebumbs, The Canterville Ghost (novel) by Oscar Wilde, Patrick Stewart, Ghost Dad, Bill Cosby, Alphaville, Once Upon a Time in the West, Eraserhead, Joseph Beuys, "Hills Like White Elephants" (short story) by Ernest Hemingway, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Christopher Nolan, and Interstellar. References To Past Episodes: Night of the Living Dead, The Lost World, and Metropolis. See this movie HERE! *We will not be reviewing The Mad Monster next week.  Instead we will be reviewing The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).

This week we’re trying something a little different. Since we’re putting two weeks between podcasts due to the length of our next book, we recorded a little mini-episode about a short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. If you haven’t read it, do so now. It almost takes less time than reading this […]