The Hemingway Cookbook
“Through his uncle Tyler (Hemingway), who was in the lumber business in Kansas City, Ernest learned of a position with the Kansas City Star that would be available in the fall. After yet another joyous summer in Michigan, Ernest left for Kansas City. His work at the Star was as close to a formal education in the fundamentals of writing as he would ever have. “Use short sentences,” the Star’s stylebook said. “Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English, not forgetting to strive for smoothnes...s.”1 He acquired his first tools. The raw material from which he “whittled a style for his time”2 lay in wait close by, though never close enough until it was upon him in a blanket of fire, earth, and metal.In the spring of 1918, the war in Europe beckoned. Ernest could not imagine missing out on “the most exciting drama ever produced.”3 Although his poor eyesight kept him out of the armed services, he quickly volunteered when the American Red Cross began recruiting ambulance drivers.On the morning of May 22,1918, Hemingway left New York on the French liner Chicago, bound for Bordeaux.MoreLess
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