Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and, um, Owen Wilson
On one of last week's snow days, when there was nothing to do beyond waiting for our power to return, I sat down with my mom to watch Midnight in Paris, a Woody Allen film about, disregarding the main plot, the many famous authors and artists who inhabited Paris in the 1920s. I found the most striking character in the movie to be Ernest Hemingway, who was depicted by Corey Stoll as a blunt and serious man.
After enjoying the movie and getting to a place with electricity, I started my search for an IRB. Still curious about 1920s Paris, I stumbled upon Hemingway's memoir on the subject, A Moveable Feast. After taking it out of my local library and reading its first chapter, I was thoroughly hooked on Hemingway's straightforward, convention-disregarding, and almost "stream of consciousness" writing style. It's honestly a very refreshing and revealing way to learn about effective stylistic choices.
I'll leave off with a Hemingway quote, the beginning of the book and the inspiration for it's title:
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man,
then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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