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Coffee with Hemingway. By Kirk Curnutt. New York: Duncan Baird, 2007. 144 pp. Cloth $9.95.
Duncan Baird Publishing's new Coffee with series features fictionalized interviews with figures ranging from Plato to Marilyn Monroe. Part biography, part primer, and part critical assessment, this format is an interesting variation on the traditional introductory guide. The books allow for a degree of directness (the interviewer asks questions the reader wants answered) and drama (famous people are so misunderstood) not usually found in comparable volumes. Plus, readers get an opportunity to glimpse historic personalities.
Of course, such an opportunity can be a good or a bad thing, and I must admit that I was initially uncertain about the prospect of a fictionalized interview with Hemingway. Few authors have been as insistently, and as poorly, caricatured in recent years, and I had a...
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