Dateline: Toronto by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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Dateline: Toronto collects all 172 pieces that Hemingway published in the Star, including those under pseudonyms. Hemingway readers will discern his unique voice already present in many of these journalistic pieces, particularly his knack for dialogue. It is also fascinating to discover early reportorial accounts of events and subjects that figure in his later fiction. As William White points out in his introduction to this work, “Much of it, over sixty years later, can still be read both as a record of the early twenties and as evidence of how Ernest Hemingway learned the craft of writing.” The enthusiasm, wit, and skill with which these pieces were written guarantee that Dateline: Toronto will be read for pleasure, as excellent journalism, and for the insights it gives to Hemingway’s works.

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⭐wanted to pick up pointers to shorten my business writing- get some influence from the masters that kind of thing.This collection of articles are tedious to read through, found my self trying to speed read through and relate this to writing today.I couldn’t if this was a physical book I would use it to prop up a door. Also read and studied more about the legend and the myths about him that get perpetrated in the popular media. Was disappointed- writers are basically wimps in real life, same holds true with EH, he was basically a drop dead fat drunk that dated fugleys and when he was old put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. between this he wrote some fiction.The collection of articles hasn’t aged well and some (majority) of articles couldn’t be publishable today- maybe if he set up a free blog but its too colloquial.Normally dump books if it doesn’t work out past 10% but gave him 17% and deleted it. If you are a majority business reader you will not enjoy.

⭐I have enjoyed reading Ernest Hemingway over the years. I’ve read all his published works except “Death in the Afternoon”. Some of his books have greatly impressed me (“The Sun Also Rises” and “For Whom the Bells Tolls”) and some have disappointed me (“Across the River and into the Trees” and “Green Hills of Africa”).I came across “Dateline: Toronto” and decided to snack on a few articles at a time. The gifted writer is not quite there yet (although I was pretty sure I discovered him in “Christmas on the Top of the World”). However, I found myself engrossed in the dispatches from Europe in the early 1920’s. This was like a history lesson about Europe after Versailles and before the name Hitler ever appeared in a German newspaper. The politics, the conferences, the leaders, the revolts and the people were worth the price of admission.Throughout the 130+ articles I was able to detect a journalist with a very good insight and a better method of communicating in print. Hemingway always went beyond the who, what, when, and where. He excelled in the how and why. Sometimes a string of dispatches bogged me down as I was reading them one after another instead of days apart as they appeared in the newspapers. As the chronological articles neared the last 100 or so pages, some very interesting topics appeared (and the writing was getting a bit better all the time). Of particular note for the Hemingway aficionados was an article about the first bullfight he attended in 1923 and an article about the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to William Butler Yeats (and Hemingway’s thoughts about the prize and the selection process).I didn’t underline anything in the book except for one sentence in which Hemingway described a special concoction in France called “marc”. It got my award for the best discription in the collection when he wrote “…and three drops of it on the tongue of a canary will send him out in a grim, deadly, silent search for eagles.” There’s not a lot of that quality of writing in “Dateline: Toronto” but there is plenty to learn about; Canada, Europe, and Hemingway.

⭐In 1920 an unknown young American landed a reporting assignment with The Toronto Star. He moved to Paris, and over the next four years wrote 172 mostly by-lined pieces, and incidentally established his place as a professional writer.That young man was Ernest Hemingway.”Dateline Toronto” is a collection of all 172 of his pieces for The Star. There is serious reportage on conditions in postwar Europe and Turkey, on public figures and social events; the value of the franc, Prohibition, inflation, tourism and sports, but what shines through all of it is the human element, the conversations with the man on the street, dialogues overheard on the bus or in the shops, the point of view of the average Joe or Pierre.Hemingway made the news comprehensible to everybody. For example, a difficult subject like Canada’s participation at the Genoa conference of 1922 is distilled to two sentences from a politician’s mouth: “Canada’s chief interest is the recognition of Russia…Canada has much harvest machinery for Russian export…” A report on a prizefight in Toronto is seen through the comments of the women spectators.Most surprising is the humour. Who knew Hemingway was a wit? Sometimes it appears in a wry turn of phrase or exaggerated description as in “Ted’s Skeeters”, an account of a fishing trip in a mosquito infested forest north of Toronto. :”The mosquitoes were coming through the netting as though it were the bars of a cage.”In “A Free Shave” Hemingway parodies his own future work as he describes a visit to the barber college which “requires the cold, naked valor of the man who walks clear-eyed to death….””I said, `I’m going upstairs.’ Upstairs is where the free work is done by the beginners.A hush fell over the shop. `He’s going upstairs’…”Torontonians who recall the Mel Lastman years will appreciate “Trading Celebrities”, wherein Hemingway asks why not trade public figures among the nations as the big leagues do baseball players, and gives some ridiculous examples like this one.”What a boon to a community like Toronto, which doesn’t know what else to do but elect officials who will keep on running. As in this case:Toronto, Feb 16.–Unnamed parties have completed negotiations between the Toronto City Council and… Hamburg, Germany for the exchange of Mayor Thomas Church in return for 20,000 tons of German shipping…”Well, you get the idea.If you wonder how Hemingway changed the art of literature, how he cut through the Victorian verbosity, straight to the heart of the matter, it’s all here in his reporting.Dateline Toronto has been out of print for some time. If you can beg, borrow or buy a copy second hand, do not wait another minute. It’s a rare look at the early twentieth century from the youthful eyes and mind of a man who would become one of its giants.

⭐This book contains all 172 dispatches Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star from 1920 to 1924. It is a fascinating account of the time and also of Hemingway’s development as a first-rate writer. Any Hemingway reader will do well to get his hands on this book as quickly as possible. It has been a breath of fresh air for this reader after years of indulging in the brew of current bestsellers, many of which say less in 200 pages than some of Hemingway’s dispatches say in 2. For the lover of literature, “Dateline: Toronto” will be like striking a vein of the real thing after years of mining fool’s gold. Enjoy your soujourn back into the twenties with Hemingway as your guide; hang onto your hats though because at times the ride gets wild, but it is a swell and exciting ride and finely crafted at every turn.

⭐The book arrived in very good condition.

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