“Kiss my ass”: when F. Scott Fitzgerald made edits to an Ernest Hemingway masterpiece
A complex relationship…
Books Archives: 05/2024
“Unprecedented”: why William S. Burroughs pins the Beat Revolution on Jack Kerouac
The start of a movement.
Ernest Hemingway’s reading list: 16 essential novels for young writers
Including classics by Leo Tolstoy, Emily Bronte and more.
Anthony Burgess on his ‘A Clockwork Orange’ regret: “I should not have written the book”
A regretful misunderstanding.
Five masterpieces of existentialist fiction you need to read before you die
Including classic novels by Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and more.
“I never believed in that guru trip”: Why Hunter S. Thompson hated drug culture
Hunter S. Thompson enjoyed taking drugs in manic profusion but wasn’t a fan of the associated culture.