Book News: Lost Hemingway Satire Will Finally Be Published

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Or perhaps that should be "Lost Hemingway. Satire will. Finally be. Published."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/18/223662736/book-news-lost-hemingway-satire-will-finally-be-published?sc=tw&cc=share

A satiric short story by Ernest Hemingway, "My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald Ogden Stewart," will be published in the next issue of Harper's and in Hemingway's collected letters. After the story was discovered among the writer Donald Ogden Stewart's letters, Vanity Fair, which had rejected the story in the 1920s, requested permission to reprint it — only to be rejected by Hemingway's estate. Hemingway's son, Patrick, told the Independent, "I'm not a great fan of Vanity Fair. It's a sort of luxury thinker's magazine — for people who get their satisfaction out of driving a Jaguar instead of a Mini." The story is based on a real incident when Ogden Stewart apparently found himself in a bull fight in Spain. According to a 2004 New York Times article, Stewart was not a fan of the story, writing in his autobiography, "When he had sent me a 'funny' piece about myself to submit to Vanity Fair, I had decided that written humor was not his dish and had done nothing about it." It's unclear whether Ogden Stewart changed his mind or Hemingway submitted it himself.