Tag: Hemingway
*** 140th Post *** Manuscript Found in Accra (2012) by Paulo Coelho & the Keys to Success
A book you’d like to keep by your bedside to read a chapter each night before sleep or upon waking early in the morning.
Master Class in Fiction Writing (2006) by Adam Sexton
Master Class in Fiction Writing (2006) by Adam Sexton is a useful tool and guide along the way of crafting memorable fiction.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.
The Complete Short Stories (1987) by Ernest Hemingway
“There was nothing to do about his father, and he had thought it all through many times. The handsome job the undertaker had done on his father’s face had not blurred in his mind and all the rest of it was quite clear, including the responsibilities.”
50 Great Short Stories (1952) edited by Milton Crane
The collection starts with a bang with ”The Garden Party” (1922) by Katherine Mansfield and then tumbles its way through some well-known stories that are usually read in high school and college. There’s Hemingway’s ”The Three-Day Blow” (1925), E.M. Forster’s ”The Other Side of the Hedge” (1947), Henry James’s ”Brooksmith” (1892), Rudyard Kipling’s ”The Courting of Dinah Shadd” (1899) and Alexander Poushkin’s ”The Shot” (1894) translated by T. Keane.
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
“On the days of false spring it was very nice, after boxing and taking a shower, to walk along the streets smelling the spring in the air and stop at a cafe to sit and watch people and read the paper and drink vermouth; then go down to the hotel and have lunch with Catherine.”
The Writer’s Journey (1998) by Christopher Vogler
A guide for writers based on the work of Joseph Campbell and the years of research and contribution to storytelling Vogler spent in Hollywood.
The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell
One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
Much of the book is loosely based on experiences of racism in Monroeville, Alabama.
Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi is a memoir of a woman teaching literature in Islamic Iran.
Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984) by Ernest Hemingway
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”















