This popular quote is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway since, you know, he was happy to have a drink or two. I’ve never believed A) that he said or wrote it, or B) that he practiced it. In fact, ...

When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

Fifty-four years ago, on a July day in 1961, the world awoke to the horrendous news that a giant of American literature had died at his own hand, from a shotgun blast to the head, just days short of ...

Ernest Hemingway is famous for his drinking, but he never said "write drunk, edit sober." Discover the true, surprising origin of this legendary literary myth.

Letters Editor Betty Talbert writes: We all are persnickety about a thing or two in life and writers seem more persnickety than most with many prides and prejudices about how the English language ...

Hemingway's reputation has suffered immensely over the last two or three decades. Read around enough and you'll see this. And I can feel it when I occasionally confess to people — for you don't tell ...

This week, in the Times, Charles McGrath wrote about a newly digitized collection of ephemera from Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban estate, Finca Vigía, which confirms that the famously terse writer was, as ...

The Hemingway app is a program that prompts a user for a sample of their writing and analyzes it for difficulty of reading, overuse of adverbs, use of overcomplicated words, and passive voice. The app ...