Stateside s conversation with Jennifer Tianen and Yael Mizrahi
In high school English classes, students are often tasked with trudging through the classics. At West Bloomfield High School, in
Jennifer Tianen’s class, they’re getting a different view of one author in the literary canon.
These students have been transcribing the letters of Marjorie Bump, a Petoskey woman who was friends with Ernest Hemingway when he lived at his boyhood summer home of Windemere. She was also a character in his Nick Adams stories, particularly
The End of Something, where Hemingway’s self insert character, Adams, ends up with a broken heart.