Author Joe Haldeman—who, among others, wrote The Hemingway Hoax—will present a talk entitled “The High Seas Letter Revisited” at the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, Illinois, on 21 July. The talk, on 108th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s birth, will discuss “Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter,” which Hemingway published in Esquire in October 1935.
The original is, according to Haldeman, “a remarkable funny and wise piece, in which Hemingway reluctantly answers questions about writing from a young fellow, Arnold Samuelson…. In eight pages, it has more actual how-to and why-to information than most books about writing. I will look at this famous letter from this 70+ year perspective, and see how much of the advice still holds up and how much of it Hemingway himself actually followed.”
The event will be at the Hemingway Museum, 200 North Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois. Doorrs open at 7PM for a 7:30 presentatoin. Admission is $10. For more information, see www.ehfop.org/museum.