Monthly Archives: July 2018
To thine own self be true.” – Hamlet 1.3.78.
My first introduction to Ernest Hemingway was through his short stories. I was a 19-year-old soldier from Michigan, stationed in West Germany, when I went to our post library and checked out a newly published collection of Hemingway’s short stories entitled The Nick Adams Stories. As I began to read the stories of this central character, Nick Adams – growing up in Michigan, going off to war as a soldier, and then returning home to…..