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Tom Poland: Breaking the cult of difficulty

Many tell me how difficult they find writing to be. Well, they speak the truth. It’s difficult to write at a high level, and that’s why while watching Ken Burn’s documentary on Ernest Hemingway, a comment jumped out at me: “He had to break the cult of difficulty.” The cult of difficulty refers to the writers in Hemingway’s day who had made it, though Hemingway hadn’t. James Joyce, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and other authors of the day wrote complex, convoluted sentences that required considerable effort to comprehend. Not Hemingway. He skipped college and went to work for the Kansas City Star where he pursued a simple style of writing. Hemingway would always remember the style sheet and its core admonition: “Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick Create Perfect Hemingway Documentary

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick Create Perfect Hemingway Documentary Ken Burns and his team have helped put American history in context through documentaries on topics ranging from the Civil War and Vietnam to jazz and baseball. Their latest takes on one of America’s greatest and complicated writers. Clay S. Jenkinson, Editor-at-Large   |   April 18, 2021 Ernest Hemingway is one of our greatest writers, and Ken Burns is our greatest documentary filmmaker, so it is fitting that the latest film by Burns and his creative partner Lynn Novick is about the most influential American writer of the 20th century, who committed suicide on July 2, 1961. Hemingway wrote seven novels during his lifetime, six collections of short stories and two works of nonfiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was married four times, and there were plenty of other women, too. His greatest novels were

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