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Art Matters Hemingway Craft and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, Conradian Split, Ernest Hemingway, Purdue University, Robert Paul Lamb
Episode 269 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Zoë liked this work of scholarship. I basically had to borrow the book from her.
In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story. Five years in, TDO finally devotes a show to Hemingway, and Bob’s discussion of Hemingway’s craft is profoundly illuminating to how effectively extraordinary Hemingway’s aesthetics were. I somehow manage not to tell the story how in my Purdue years, my roommates and I dubbed the more rustic of our two bathrooms as The Ernest Hemingway Memorial toilet, with a lot of great photos of Hem in it.
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Special thanks to Mistie Watkins for her encouragement with this episode.
On July 28th, I am hosting a reading by Jaimal Yogis at the Kerouac House.
Episode 269 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.