Key West Bars Hold Fast to Hemingway’s Memory

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If you are planning to visit Hemingway bars where he drank when he lived on Key West, Florida, you have two stops to make.  First To Captain Tony’s Captain Tony’s Saloon in Key West is a dark hole with tables, a guitarist, a bar tender and a gnarled tree pushing up through the ceiling like […]

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Driving from Texas to Key West to Chase the Hemingway Mystique

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The mystery, the Hemingway mystique, has been with me since I was an undergraduate. Hemingway framed himself as the hero-writer of his era. The pose reminds me of the mystery of the Greek hero-god Think about melancholy Achilles, whose diffident greatness was captured brilliantly by Brad Pitt in the 2000 movie Helen of Troy.  (movie

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