New York
Christie’s auction house this week announced plans to sell a previously unknown manuscript by Ernest Hemingway. But the 1924 short story about a bloody bullfight cannot be published unless Hemingway’s estate gives permission, which so far it has declined to do. The tale was discovered, along with a handwritten letter, among the papers of Hemingway’s friend writer Donald Ogden Stewart. Stewart’s son said the story was an interesting artifact of Hemingway’s early career, but not a masterpiece. He described “My Life in the Bull Ring With Donald Ogden Stewart” as a comic version of the Hemingway myth: “A heroic man with a lot of hair on his chest.”
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Trinidadian doubles recipeThe Week Recommends 'Dangerously addictive', this traditional Caribbean street food is the height of finger-licking goodness
-
Labour and the so-called 'banter ban'Talking Point Critics are claiming that a clause in the new Employment Rights Bill will spell the end of free-flowing pub conversation
-
Andor series two: a 'perfect' Star Wars showThe Week Recommends Second instalment of Tony Gilroy's 'compelling' spin-off is a triumph
