7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
As part of our Hemingway in the 21st Century series, Hemingway scholar and author, Dr. Mark Cirino joins us to discuss his latest book, One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art.
“All you have to do is write one true sentence,” Hemingway wrote in his memoir, A Moveable Feast. “Write the truest sentence that you know.” If that is the secret to Hemingway’s enduring power, what sentences continue to live in readers’ minds? And why do they resonant? The host and producer of the One True Podcast has gathered the best of their program (heard by thousands of listeners) and added entirely new material for this collection of conversations about Hemingway’s truest words.
Dr. Cirino will talk about Hemingways craft from the inside out, by looking at a few sentences that he finds particularly definitive to his style and invite people to bring their own "one true sentences" to the talk and share them as well.
This author event is co-sponsored with the Oak Park Public Library
Please note the Hemingway Foundation will offer this event on Zoom, link below, in a limited format
Dr. Mark Cirino is Professor and Department Chair / Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature at the University of Evansville. Dr. Cirino received his PhD at the Graduate Center-CUNY. Of his eight books about American literature as writer or editor, his most recent is One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art (2022), with Michael Von Cannon. He serves as the General Editor for Kent State University Press's “Reading Hemingway” series, for which he wrote the volume on Across the River and into the Trees (2016) and co-edited Reading Winner Take Nothing (2021) with former UE student Susan Vandagriff. Dr. Cirino is the host of the popular Hemingway Society-sponsored podcast, One True Podcast.