WAS THIS HIS BEST? In this episode we discuss Ernest Hemingway’s last published work in his lifetime: The Old Man and the Sea. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. And all of us wondered as read and reread and debated—of all Hemingway’s writings, was this the one that should have achieved those awards? The Continue Reading …
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