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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick started working on their new docuseries about Ernest Hemingway almost seven years ago, when conversations about toxic masculinity and cancel culture were still at least a presidency away. But you’d be forgiven for thinking the series was a pandemic project, because
Hemingway, and the conversations that take place within it, feel utterly of the moment. From gender fluidity and mental illness to sexual misconduct and racism, today’s most charged topics are discussed at length in the series because they were part and parcel of the iconic, mercurial writer, whose own ex-wife Hadley Richardson once described as having so many sides to him that he defied geometry. Throughout the three-part, six-hour series, Hemingway is portrayed as both violent and tender, self-aware and self-aggrandizing, with an equal, outsize capacity for both joy and depthless depression. It’s no wonder then why the writer Michael Katakis says at the start of the series that Hemingway
April 6, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) – A new documentary on Ernest Hemingway – powered by vast but little-known archives kept at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston – is shedding new light on the acclaimed novelist.
Hemingway, by longtime collaborators Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiering on
PBS on three consecutive nights from yesterday, takes a more nuanced look at the author and his longstanding reputation as an adventurer, outdoorsman and bullfight-loving misogynist who struggled with internal turmoil that eventually led to his death by suicide at age 61.
The truth about the man many consider America’s greatest 20
th-century novelist – whose concise writing style made him an outsized celebrity who became a symbol of unrepentant American masculinity – is much more complex, Novick said.
JFK Library archives bring unknown facets of Ernest Hemingway to life in new documentary
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In this July 1934 photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation from the Ernest Hemingway Collection, Ernest Hemingway poses with a marlin at Havana Harbor, in Key West, Fla.
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BOSTON: A new Ken Burns documentary on Ernest Hemingway powered by vast but little-known archives kept at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is shedding new light on the acclaimed novelist. Hemingway , premiering on PBS on three consecutive nights starting April 5, takes a more nuanced look at the author and his longstanding reputation as an alcoholic, adventurer, outdoorsman and bullfight-loving misogynist who struggled with internal turmoil that eventually led to his death by suicide at age 61.
Reply A new three-part documentary about Hemingway, which relied heavily on the archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, debuted Monday on PBS. (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston via AP)
BOSTON (AP) A new documentary on Ernest Hemingway powered by vast but little-known archives kept at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is shedding new light on the acclaimed novelist. Hemingway, by longtime collaborators Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiering on PBS on three consecutive nights starting April 5, takes a more nuanced look at the author and his longstanding reputation as an alcoholic, adventurer, outdoorsman and bullfight-loving misogynist who struggled with internal turmoil that eventually led to his death by suicide at age 61.