CW: animal abuse (bullfighting, sharks, safari hunting), misogyny, war, cancer, alcoholism. transphobia, homophobia, suicide attempt, mental illness, death
A listener challenged us to get him to hate Hemingway more and we took him on. Lucky for us, it’s so easy to hate Hemingway— the man was cruel to his friends, his family, and to his enemies. He just does ridiculous and terrible things, which we will be thrilled to share with you. If a man could fuck up so bad he shoots himself in both kneecaps, he can fuck up anything.
First things first, let’s get some pictures of Hemingway on here for you to look at.
This is an 18 year old Hemingway after he was hit with mortar shrapnel during WW1. 
This is just a picture of a younger Hemingway. 
Pretty typical Hemingway. Always had guns with him, liked to point them at people. 
Karen kind of freaked out at this picture of Hemingway with the marlins. He was record holder in marlin fishing for a while. 
And this is old Hemingway with all the scars and head indentations from the kind of life he lived.
This link looks at Hemingway’s career from the literary perspective. I figured we better get at least just one in here that talked about him from in the way everyone tends to talk about him: as a literary hero.
Now, the next three are just bulleted listed of weird, crazy, and just terrible things Hemingway has done in his life. Enjoy them. This one has a lot in it about his issues with other people in the literary world. Some of it made it into the podcast, some of it didn’t.
This one is mostly about the manly man things he did like his fighting, shooting things, and accidents. Some made it onto the podcast and some didn’t.
This one just has a variety of stories about him in it. Again, some made it in, some didn’t.
This is a picture of Gloria Hemingway in her later life. Click on the picture to take you to an article about her and her relationship with her father, Ernest Hemingway.
And finally, a link to the newspaper article from The New York Times from 1961 after Hemingway’s death.
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