by Sam Bluefarb (July 2011) 

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. --Ernest Hemingway, from The Paris Review interviews, Writers at Work

Apart from his flirtation with the left during the Spanish civil war (1936-1939), few think of Ernest Hemingway as a conservative, or simply conservative--there is a subtle difference. Yet Hemingway’s tragic conservatism was not political, though briefly he was drawn to the non-partisan politics of the revolutionary left. more>>>