Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Hemingway festival becomes a symposium

Hemingway scholars to give free talks at library


By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

Scott Donaldson is a literary biographer who will give a talk on his recent book, “Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days,” at the Community Library in Ketchum. Photo by

The Ernest Hemingway Festival has evolved into the Ernest Hemingway Symposium. The symposium, unlike its predecessor, is free and open to the public with talks and events about one of the greatest American writers.

The symposium will take place Thursday, Oct. 22, through Saturday, Oct. 24, and is meant to honor Hemingway's bond to Idaho, especially in Ketchum and Sun Valley. This year, all talks and presentations will take place at the Community Library in Ketchum.

In addition, anyone can partake in the Ernest Hemingway Pub Crawl to enjoy happy hour specials at Hemingway's favorite haunts. Pub crawl participants who keep track of visited locations have an opportunity to win $25 in Chamber Choice gift certificates. For details, visit the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber and Visitors Center on Sun Valley Road in Ketchum.

A benefit dinner by The Nature Conservancy will take place at Hemingway's home, and includes cocktails, a five-course dinner and presentations. Tickets are $1,000 with a limit of 18 seats. For details, call Elizabeth Coleman at 788-8988, ext. 28.

A featured speaker for the symposium will be Scott Donaldson, who has written biographies on Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, Archibald MacLeish and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Donaldson's new book, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days," was published by Columbia University Press. In addition, Donaldson is past president of the Hemingway Society.

A past festival presenter and returning for the symposium will be Hemingway scholar Susan F. Beegel. Beegel has published three books and more than 50 articles, book chapters, editions and reviews about Ernest Hemingway and other figures in American literature and history. She is also editor of The Hemingway Review, a joint publication of the University of Idaho and The Hemingway Society. In addition, Beegel has appeared on Idaho Public Television's "Dialogue" program, and her appearances in television documentaries include Diamond Sun Production's "Hemingway in the Autumn" and Harmony Gold's "Hemingway in Cuba."

The symposium will round out its speakers with David M. Earle, author of "All Man!: Hemingway, 1950s Men's Magazines, and the Masculine Persona." Earle's book examines Hemingway and 1950s men's  magazines to explore hyper-masculinity after World War II.

Earle is former editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement. He has published on topics as diverse as Joyce's use of the symbol of absinthe in "Ulysses" for the James Joyce Quarterly and a history of pulp magazines for The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Earle is a Sun Valley native and is an assistant professor of transatlantic modernism and print culture at the University of West Florida.

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com

Hemingway symposium schedule

All events are free at the Community Library in Ketchum. For details, call 726-3423

Thursday, Oct. 22

· 6-7:30 p.m. Welcome and lecture, "Fitzgerald & Hemingway: Works and Days," with Scott Donaldson followed by a reception and book signing.

Friday, Oct. 23

· 10-11:30 a.m. Susan Beegel, editor of The Hemingway Review, will give a PowerPoint presentation on "A Farewell to Arms."

· 11:45-1:15 p.m. David Earle, author of "All Man!: Hemingway's Popular Reputation and 1950s Men's Magazines" will give a presentation.

· 1:30-3:30 p.m. Hemingway Haunts Tour with Community Library regional historian Sandra Hofferber.

Saturday, Oct. 24

· Elegant dinner benefit at Ernest Hemingway's last residence presented by The Nature Conservancy, $1,000 per person. Advanced reservations required. For details, call 788-8988, ext. 28.




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