Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. This means if you click a link and make a purchase we may receive a commission. Ernest Hemingway is a legendary and challenging figure in modern literature. A voracious consumer of life, Hemingway idealized a hyper-masculine image of the writer-as-adventurer. He turned his travels and experiences into fiction, developing an iconic, terse writing style that cemented him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Despite a decline in his work later in life precipitated by a battle with depression—a battle he would tragically lose—Hemingway remains on a short list of writers every serious reader is encouraged to engage. Despite his elegant and concise prose, Hemingway’s themes are sometimes regarded as remote and inaccessible. The truth is the opposite: Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” kept his themes and ideas […]
