Ernest Hemingway’s revised Paris

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Ernest Hemingway’s Parisian memoir ‘A Moveable Feast,’ first published in 1964, is being re-released in a ‘restored’ version this summer. ‘Restored’ means some previously edited-out passages have been returned to the text. It has prompted Christopher Hitchens to take a look; he writes in the Atlantic:

What is it exactly that explains the continued fascination of this rather slight book? Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris. To be more precise, it is also a skeleton key to the American literary fascination with Paris (and contains some excellent tips for start-up writers, such as the advice to stop working while you still have something left to write the next day).

When Hemingway stopped working, he might take a drink -- you can see him holding a glass of something (Pernod? cognac?) in the clip above, a rare color film from 1944 from an Italian archive.

-- Carolyn Kellogg