{"product_id":"one-true-sentence-writers-readers-on-hemingways-art-9781567927139","title":"One True Sentence: Writers \u0026 Readers on Hemingway's Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell Banks; filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Seán Hemingway, A. Scott Berg, and many others in this celebration and conversation between Hemingway and some of his \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emost perceptive and interesting readers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"All you have to do is write one true sentence,\" Hemingway wrote in his memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Moveable Feast\u003c\/i\u003e. \"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 \u003ci\u003eOne True Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e have 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the long, whole-story-in-a-sentence line, \"I have seen the one-legged streetwalker who works the Boulevard Madeleine between the Rue Cambon and Bernheim Jeunes' limping along the pavement through the crowd on a rainy night with a beefy red faced episcopal clergyman holding an umbrella over her.\", to the short, pithy line that closes \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Isn't it pretty to think so?\", this is a collection full of delights, surprises, and insight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened,\" wrote Hemingway. \"And after you're finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards, it all belongs to you.\" For readers of American literature, \u003ci\u003eOne True Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e is full of remembrances--of words you read and the feelings they gave you. For writers, this is an inspiring view of an element of craft--a single sentence--that can make a good story come alive and become a great story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCirino, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Cirino\u003c\/b\u003e is the host of \u003ci\u003eOne True Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author\/editor of six books about Ernest Hemingway and serves as the general editor for Kent State University Press's \"Reading Hemingway\" series. He served as the literature consultant on the forthcoming cinematic adaptation of Hemingway's \u003ci\u003eAcross the River and into the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e. Cirino teaches American literature at the University of Evansville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCannon, Michael Von:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Von Cannon\u003c\/b\u003e is the producer of \u003ci\u003eOne True Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e. He serves as an advisory editor on the multi-volume Hemingway Letters Project and is currently working on the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1957-1961\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press). He has published extensively on Hemingway's relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Von Cannon teaches at Florida Gulf Coast University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurns, Ken:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKen Burns\u003c\/b\u003e has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBaseball\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJackie Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Vietnam War\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eHemingway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449367662866,"sku":"9781567927139","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d33507e-2b96-4c03-ad29-5d229bf7e547.jpg?v=1729743975","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-true-sentence-writers-readers-on-hemingways-art-9781567927139","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}