HOW TO LIVE:
rough guide to living a particular type of extraordinary life. To accompany your viewing experience, read along with this booklet as you watch. While learning eleven characteristics of living a particular type of extraordinary life you will see where the stories in the three films cross over into Hemingway’s reality. Go ahead, indulge.
EMBRACE NICKNAMERY A few of Hemingway’s nicknames: Hem, Hemmie, Hemingstein, Nesto, Porthos, Butch, Papa (of course), and Eoinbones.
WEAR SEVERAL HATS A few hats in Hemingway’s proverbial waredrobe: highschool football benchwarmer, reporter, pugilist, renowned author, and CIA operative.
DRIVE AN AMBULANCE Hemingway entered WWI as a Red Cross ambulance driver stationed outside of Milan, Italy.
FALL IN LOVE WITH A NURSE (PREFERABLY IN ITALY) While hospitalized for wounds at Milan’s Ospedale Croce Rossa Americana in 1918, Hemingway fell for nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky, a former Washington, DC librarian.
CULTIVATE YOUR POSSE A brief list of notable ‘Hemingfriends’ and acquaintances: F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Beryl Markham, Robert McAlmon.
WORK THAT PASSPORT For various amounts of time, Hemingway lived in Paris, France; Venice, Italy; Havana, Cuba; and Bimini, The Bahamas. When he wasn’t living anywhere, he traveled from Michigan to Africa and beyond.
APPRECIATE THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE Hemingway indulged in wine, rum, and gin, preferably while enjoying rich, expertly-prepared food from Pamplona to Paris to Havana to Mombasa to, well, wherever.
UNLEASH THE CHAMPION WITHIN Boxing, luge sledding, marksmanship, tennis, mountain climbing, cycling, and bullfighting were among Hemingway’s athletic endeavors.
TEACH SOMEONE SOMETHING Hemingway gave boxing lessons to Ezra Pound in Paris.
MAKE STRONG IMPRESSIONS Gregory Clark, features editor of The Kansas City Star, once said of Ernest:“A more weird combination of quivering sensitiveness and preoccupation with violence never walked this earth.”
LIVE TO TELL THE TALE Hemingway endured multiple injuries (from shrapnel, playing with a lion, playing with a shark, and surviving two plane crashes-- not at the same time). He also toughed it out through bouts of malaria, anthrax, pnemonia, blood poisoning, amoebic dysentery, hypertension, hepatitis and arteriosclerosis.