One True Podcast
One True Podcast explores all things related to Hemingway, his work, and his world. The show is hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon. Join us in conversation with scholars, artists, political leaders, and other luminaries. For more, follow us on Twitter @1truepod. You can also email us at 1truepod@gmail.com.
Episodes
148 episodes
J. Gerald Kennedy on Hemingway in 1925
What was Ernest Hemingway doing in 1925? Where was he? What were his important relationships? What were his challenges? What was he writing? 1925 is the year that put Hemingway on the map. To guide us through this crucial year, we welco...
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in our time, chapter 18: "The king was working in the garden"
Welcome to our eighteenth and final show celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this quirky narrative that would come to be known as “L’Envoi” in the following year’s
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Suzanne del Gizzo on "The Blind Man's Christmas Eve"
Happy holidays from One True Podcast, and it wouldn’t be the holiday season without Suzanne del Gizzo—the celebrated editor of The Hemingway Review—here to discuss another one of Hemingway’s seasonally appropriate works. In previous ye...
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in our time, chapter 17: "They hanged Sam Cardinella"
Welcome to the seventeenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.Hemingway captures a scene out of the American newspapers, the execution by hanging o...
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One True Sentence #38 with Ruchika Tomar
Ruchika Tomar, the 2020 PEN/Hemingway winner for A Prayer for Travelers, shares her one true sentence from “A Very Short Story.”
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in our time, chapter 16: "Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand"
Welcome to the sixteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this episode, Maera is gored and dies in a masterfully cinematic way. We explore Hem...
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in our time, chapter 15: "I heard the drums coming down the street"
Welcome to the fifteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This episode on Maera and Luis extends Hemingway’s exploration of bullfighting and viol...
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Milton A. Cohen on in our time
As One True Podcast winds down its ambitious year-long project of devoting an episode to each of the eighteen chapters in in our time, we visit with the man who wrote the book about the book, Milton A. Cohen.Cohen’s study of th...
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Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years, Part 2
Robert W. Trogdon joins One True Podcast to share the treasures of the new Library of America volume he has edited: A Farewell to Arms and Other Writings, 1927-1932. We discuss Hemingway and his life during those magical, turbulent yea...
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in our time, chapter 14: "If it happened right down close in front of you"
Welcome to the fourteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This episode continues Hemingway’s exploration of bullfighting and violence through a ...
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in our time, chapter 13: "The crowd shouted all the time"
Welcome to the thirteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This episode continues Hemingway’s exploration of bullfighting and violence. This chap...
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One True Sentence #37 with Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O’Nan, the prolific author of West of Sunset and other works of fiction and non-fiction, shares his one true sentence from “The End of Something.”
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Olivia Carr Edenfield on "Cross-Country Snow"
One True Podcast takes on another classic Hemingway short story as Olivia Carr Edenfield joins us to discuss “Cross-Country Snow,” the beloved Nick Adams story from In Our Time. Prof. Edenfield discusses how this skiing tr...
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in our time, chapter 12: "They whack whacked the white horse"
Welcome to the twelfth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this episode, we discuss Hemingway's powerful depiction of a bullfighting scene betwee...
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in our time, chapter 11: "In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy"
Welcome to the eleventh of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.Listeners might be familiar with this vignette as the short story "The Revolutionist" fr...
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One True Sentence #36 with Javier Fuentes
Javier Fuentes, the 2024 PEN/Hemingway winner for Countries of Origin, shares his one true sentence from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
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Stacey Guill and Alberto Lena on the Spanish Civil War Stories
Live from Bilbao! One True Podcast presents our show live from the 20th International Hemingway Conference in Bilbao, Spain. We welcome scholars Stacey Guill and Alberto Lena to explore Hemingway’s five stories of the Spanish Civil War. These o...
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Larry Grimes on "Today Is Friday"
One True Podcast welcomes the great Larry Grimes to discuss “Today Is Friday,” the curious playlet from Men Without Women about three Roman soldiers and a Jewish barman discussing Jesus’s crucifixion.This interview explores the...
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in our time, chapter 10: "One hot evening in Milan"
Welcome to the tenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This chapter will be familiar to many readers as the bitter narrative that would later be p...
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in our time, chapter 9: "At two o’clock in the morning two Hungarians"
Welcome to the ninth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This chapter is the first of the vignettes set in America, a fictionalized account of a cig...
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Sandra Spanier and Verna Kale on the 1934-1936 Letters
One True Podcast celebrates the publication of Volume 6 of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway by welcoming two of its editors, Sandra Spanier and Verna Kale. These letters, spanning 1934-1936, find Hemingway in Key West, fishing, pu...
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Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera on "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
We continue our exploration of Hemingway's short stories with his masterful narrative, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." To aid us in this effort, we're joined by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, who is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and served...
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in our time, chapter 8: "While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces"
Welcome to the eighth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.On the heels of the vignette about Nick's war injury, this bombardment scene evokes the id...
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in our time, chapter 7: "Nick sat against the wall of the church"
Welcome to the seventh of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this important vignette, Hemingway depicts Nick's war injury and his "separate peace" ...
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