Kennedy Library Research Articles

PEN/Hemingway Keynote Address: Delivered at the PEN/Hemingway Awards Ceremony hosted by the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library April 2, 2023

Abstract: Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN award the PEN/Hemingway prize for the year’s best debut novel. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2023 PEN/Hemingway prize was awarded to Oscar Hokeah for his book, Calling for a Blanket Dance . We are pleased to present the keynote address of Jennifer Haigh, a New York Times Best Selling author who has been called a “gifted chronicler of the human condition” ( Washington Post Book World ).

The American Short Story and Me

The American Short Story and Me

Caporetto: Das Hemingway-Komplott by Horst Kleinert

Reviewed by: Caporetto: Das Hemingway-Komplott by Horst Kleinert Lesley Pleasant Caporetto: Das Hemingway-Komplott. By Horst Kleinert. Thurm Verlag, 2020, 208 pp. Paperback €12,80. Horst Kleinert’s curious German novel Caporetto: Das Hemingway-Komplott [Caporetto: The Hemingway Conspiracy] has two imperatives for its protagonist, Frank, and for the reader: “Lies es.”/“Read it” (the “it” being A Farewell to Arms) and “Seien Sie nicht zu mutig”/“Don’t be too courageous”; that is, extremism will kill you. One might be tempted to add a third: Avoid Death in the Afternoon. In Kleinert’s text, Hemingway’s reading of passages from his bullfighting disquisition alienates guests at the Ocean Inn in Miami Beach. Later, the book is unexpectedly wielded as a deadly weapon by Paula, Frank’s wife, ultimately resulting in her own death. Caporetto’s appendix contains for the Hemingway scholar a fourth suggestion: Go to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and research whether Hemingway appeared at the 1 September 1931 Berlin premiere of the Carl [End Page 117] Zuckmayer stage adaptation of A Farewell to Arms. Kleinert explains that the different sources1 he has consulted do not agree on whether or not Hemingway attended. For those who believe he did, there is disagreement about when and on how (badly) he behaved. It is Hemingway’s planned appearance at the premiere in Berlin that forms the basis of the Caporetto conspiracy of the book. Part mystery, part thriller, part romantic melodrama, the novel is a timely reminder of how political extremism on the right and the left thrive in unsettled times. Reminiscent of a cop show serial and of cartoon fights, it is a condemnation of contemporary America in the guise of an historical novel with “recurring guest” appearances by a caricatured Ernest Hemingway, the “good” American who fought against the Fascists, appreciated Europe, and bemoaned the loss of natural habitats. It also marks the end of the (West) Berliner belief in a Hemingway-type American savior, the loud, uncouth, gun-toting, raisin-bombing dependable friend. Fired and humiliated because he can’t back up his first front-page story that claims that a run-of-the-mill drug-related murder is actually politically driven, Frank is determined to prove it. By uncovering the ultra-right secret organization Thor, Frank will rehabilitate his credibility as a journalist; in following the story to Thor, he happens to uncover the Caporetto plot. Saving Hemingway is a lucky byproduct. A caricatured Papa Hemingway serves to tie the novel together, which spans from August 1931–June 1934 and involves stints in Berlin, Paris, Florida, and former “German” East Africa. After warning Hemingway in Paris about a plot to kill him at the Berlin premiere of the stage play of A Farewell to Arms, Frank accompanies him reluctantly to Berlin (regaled throughout the drive with grand statements about big game hunting, deep sea fishing, bullfighting, and war tales). Frank saves Hemingway from an assassination attempt by insisting that he sit out the second act at the theatre bar. A grateful Hemingway pens a three-page letter, that Frank believes reads like one of Hemingway’s stories. In portraying Frank as the hero who risked all to save American values as embodied by and given voice by Hemingway, the letter convinces the ambassador to grant Frank and his wife, the good Germans, if you will, permission to become American citizens. The plot is high on convolution and rich with cameos of famous Germans, including Max Schmeling against whom Hemingway shows “good form” in a fictional boxing match; Fritz Kortner who recites the Ring Parable from Lessing’s Nathan the Wise; Marlene Dietrich who claims that The Sun Also Rises [End Page 118] was “nicht schlecht”/“not bad,” and Richard Tauber who sings an aria from Turandot at the Six-Day Race in the Sportpalast. The narrative also has Frank encounter two apparent femme fatales, who are actually nothing of the sort, embroiled, respectively, in an extreme leftwing and rightwing group (both equally “menschenverachtend”/“inhumane”), and both of whom support and help Frank uncover and fight the group Thor, to tragic ends. Although Paula is upset when she reads a New York Times...

Current Bibliography

Current Bibliography Kelli A. Larson [The current bibliography aspires to include all serious contributions to Hemingway scholarship. Given the substantial quantity of significant critical work appearing on Hemingway’s life and writings annually, inconsequential items from the popular press have been omitted to facilitate the distinction of important developments and trends in the field. Annotations for articles appearing in The Hemingway Review have been omitted due to the immediate availability of abstracts introducing each issue. Kelli Larson welcomes your assistance in keeping this feature current. Please send reprints, clippings, and photocopies of articles, as well as notices of new books, directly to Larson at the University of St. Thomas, 333 JRC, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105-1096. E-Mail: Kalarson1@stthomas.edu.] ________ BOOKS Corbacho, Henri-Pierre. A Short Biography of Ernest Hemingway. Carlisle, MA: Benna Books, 2018. [Not Seen. ISBN: 9781944038533] Feldman, Andrew. Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2019. [Comprehensive biography of EH’s life in Cuba, covering his initial visit with second wife Pauline Pfeiffer in 1928, move to the fishing village of Cojimar with third wife Martha Gell-horn in 1940, and eventual adoption of the island as his second homeland in later years. Feldman discusses EH’s love for the Cuban people, literary debt to Cojimar’s villagers in the writing of OMS, longtime liaison with Leopoldina Rodriguez, friendships with Cuban writers, neighbors, and fishermen, relationship with Castro, and support of the revolution. Feldman’s examination deftly situates the author and his works (e.g. THHN, OMS, IIS) within the island’s complex and changing political, social, and cultural landscapes, drawing on archives from the Hemingway Museum and Library in Havana and John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, biographies, memoirs, histories, correspondence, and other resources. Features over twenty black-and-white photographs. Includes extensive notes and critical bibliography and helpful index. ] Pisasale, Gene. Hemingway, Cuba and the Great Blue River. La Vergne, TN: IngramSpark, 2018. [Not Seen. ISBN: 9781532333446] Pumfrey, Jamie. Hemingway. Lewis: Ammonite P, 2019. [Relies on visually engaging infographics to tell the story of EH’s life, work, and legacy.] Shams, Ishteyaque. The Novels of Ernest Hemingway: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Atlantic P, 2018. [Not Seen. ISBN: 8126901675] ESSAYS Abd Hussein, Ghufran. “Discovering Eden: Rain, Cats and Women in Hemingway’s Garden.” Gender Studies 17.1 (2018): 57–72. [Covers familiar ground on EH’s four turbulent marriages, sums up the inherent risks of interpreting his iceberg prose, and provides a close reading of “Cat in the Rain,” focusing on gender identity, cat and mirror symbolism, and the theme of repressed desire. Concludes with a brief assessment of the treatment of women and the role of androgyny in GOE.] Ali, Chaker Mohamed Ben. “Reading Hemingway in Algeria.” The Hemingway Review 39.1 (Fall 2019): 128–33. Bannigan, S.P., Michaela Brownell, Megan M. Miller, and Karena Schrempp. “Current Bibliography.” The Hemingway Review 39.1 (Fall 2019): 151–62. Beall, John. “The Dark Humor of Hemingway’s ‘A Way You’ll Never Be.’” Midwestern Miscellany 47 (Spring/Fall 2019): 96–111. [Manuscript study. Beall chronicles EH’s extensive drafting and revision process, contending that the author carefully constructs the opening battle scene with Nick as a rational and detached military analyst to underscore his later manic loss of control, as evidenced in his rambling interior monologues and comedic lecture to the adjutant connecting American troops with plagues of locusts. Contrasts Nick’s comical monologues on locusts in “Big Two-Hearted River” with the sharper and edgier humor of his exchange with the adjutant. Reads the latter story’s conclusion as evidence of Nick’s resilience and ability to move forward despite his wounding.] Betsworth, Leon. “A Café is a Very Different Thing: Hemingway’s Café as Church and Home.” The Hemingway Review 39.1 (Fall 2019): 62–80. Bloom, Harold. “Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961).” The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon. Ed. David Mikics. New York: Library of America, 2019. 266–74. [Characterizes EH as an elegiac poet influenced by Walt Whitman’s style and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s vision of self-reliance. Applauds EH’s contributions to the short story genre, identifying...

Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life ed. by Michael Katakis

Reviewed by: Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life ed. by Michael Katakis Kirk Curnutt Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life. Edited by Michael Katakis. New York: Scribner's, 2018. 212 pp. Hardback $35.00. Scholars fortunate enough to have visited the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston understand what a treasure trove of material awaits discovery there. Not simply a repository for manuscript drafts and discards and correspondence—as valuable as those are for the simple reason that most of them remain unpublished—the collection also includes photo album upon photo album of images that few have ever flipped through, much less catalogued or requested permission to reproduce in a biography or critical study. Along with a large variety of keepsakes and ephemera, these goodies are hardly the typical flotsam and jetsam that your average pack rat accumulates over time. (It goes without saying that nary a description of the collection exists that does not describe Hemingway as a "notorious" pack rat). Rather, these objects, whether a scrap of paper, a ticket stub, or an expired passport, lend a material immanence to Hemingway's life nearly six decades after his death. Yet not every Hemingway aficionado can make his or her way to Columbia Point. In recent years, the collection has scanned bits and pieces for online access, most notably five volumes of Grace Hall Hemingway's scrapbooks on Ernest covering 1899-1917. Unless one is only interested in the writer's childhood and adolescence, though, the scrapbooks are fun but prefatory. They can only begin to challenge the visual stereotypes that stamp the culture's limited sense of Hemingway's iconicity, whether his beefy brio, that late-stage white Papa beard, or the omnipresent wine bottle. Most of these signifiers come from a handful of widely reprinted photos, from the 1924 image of the emerging author with his hands stuffed in his pockets outside the Paris apartment at 113 Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs to Yousuf Karsh's famous 1957 close-up portrait of the literary lion in a turtleneck sweater thick as a Bundt pan around his throat. There is so much more to the man to discover, though. The omnipresence of photos like these are one reason that Michael Katakis's handsomely designed Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts from a Life is such a game-changer. Hemingway scholars know Mr. Katakis as the formidable gate-keeper to estate permissions; what they may not know is he is also a talented writer, editor, and historian in his own right, with books on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Native American photography, and expatriation to his credit. As a curatorial guide to the collection, he offers in this coffee-table book an [End Page 134] arresting tour of cornerstone Hemingway moments that feels both fresh and visually intoxicating, punctuated with thoughtful commentary from Hemingway Letters Project director Sandra Spanier, Carol Hemingway, former Kennedy Library director Tom Putnam, as well as "text panels" by Declan Kiely and a preface and afterword respectively from Patrick and Seán Hemingway. Thankfully, Katakis eschews a strictly chronological organization, which can feel stultifying in its familiarity to those who study the biographical arc. Instead, he divides the book into thematic sections ("Beginnings," "Key West, Cuba, and Spain," "Artifacts from a Life," and "Endings") that collectively create the appearance of that crucial modernist device, the collage-like juxtaposition. This strategy—dare I call it cubistic?—emphasizes the contrasts in Hemingway's life and recreates the experience of scouring photo- and scrapbooks, where the randomness at any moment can transport us into the thickness of an associative memory. The verso to the table of contents, for example, features a Spanish Civil War-era Hemingway, looking slightly frazzled and unkempt with the tail of his necktie straying from his sport coat, staring warily off-center of the camera aperture (viii). Set against this photo (which also serves as the book cover) is a small reproduction of the writer's 1944 World War II noncombatant identity card. Even with a thinner hairline and a white beard, ursine but clearly combed, Hemingway appears healthier if not younger in this latter photo, if only because he...

Hemingway Keynote Address: Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 8 April 2018

Hemingway Keynote Address: Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 8 April 2018

Current Bibliography

Current Bibliography Kelli A. Larson [The current bibliography aspires to include all serious contributions to Hemingway scholarship. Given the substantial quantity of significant critical work appearing on Hemingway's life and writings annually, inconsequential items from the popular press have been omitted to facilitate the distinction of important developments and trends in the field. Annotations for articles appearing in The Hemingway Review have been omitted due to the immediate availability of abstracts introducing each issue. Kelli Larson welcomes your assistance in keeping this feature current. Please send reprints, clippings, and photocopies of articles, as well as notices of new books, directly to Larson at the University of St. Thomas, 333 JRC, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105-1096. E-Mail: KaLarson1@stthomas.edu.] Kelli A. Larson University of St. Thomas BOOKS Bean, Kendra and Anthony Uzarowski. Ava: A Life in Movies. Philadelphia, PA: Running P, 2017. [Biography of Ava Gardner with scattered references to her friendship with EH. Comments on her roles in the film productions of "The Killers," "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and SAR.] Google Scholar Paul, Steve. Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review P, 2018. [Detailed biography chronicling the events, experiences, and people of this formative year in the young writer's life. Paul covers EH's six month stint as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star, later service in the Red Cross ambulance division in Italy during WWI, and subsequent wounding. Paul, a former Star re-porter and editor, explores the influence of EH's newspaper apprenticeship on his developing vision as an author and identifies un-bylined EH articles based on an examination of style and content. Includes over twenty black-and-white photographs along with endnotes, index, and bibliography. Reprints three Star articles. Draws on existing biographies, correspondence, John F. Kennedy Library archives, and other sources.] [End Page 165] Google Scholar ESSAYS Anderson, Eric Gary and Melanie Benson Taylor. "The Landscape of Disaster: Hemingway, Porter, and the Soundings of Indigenous Silence." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 59.3 (Fall 2017): 319-52. [Comparison study identifying EH as a southern writer despite critical reluctance to envision him as such. Examines how each author submerges personal wounding and cultural trauma in their writings about place, specifically focusing on the intersection of Indians and modernism. Concludes that EH's experiments with "indigeneity," though sometimes demonstrating settler colonial impulses, also acknowledge the presence of Indians through their decipherable silence. Discusses EH's "Indian Camp," "Ten Indians," "Big Two-Hearted River," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," THHN, and Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," among others.] Google Scholar Araki, Hirohiko. "Learn Storytelling from Hemingway." Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga. Trans. Nathan A. Collins. San Francisco, VIZ Media, 2017. 106-08. [Guide for aspiring authors. Araki illustrates the writing principle of "show, don't tell" through a brief examination of the criminals' dialogue in "The Killers."] Google Scholar Bass, Eleanor. "Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky." Yours Always: Letters of Longing. London: Icon Books, 2017. 102-07. [Briefly sums up the familiar circumstances surrounding EH's affair with Red Cross nurse Agnes von Kurowsky. Reprints both von Kurowsky's "Dear John" letter and EH's letter to friend Bill Horne detailing his painful response to their breakup.] Google Scholar Cirino, Mark and Amanda Kay Oaks. "Wise Blood: Menstruation, Fertility, and the 'Disappointment' in Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees." The Hemingway Review 37.1 (Fall 2017): 55-66. Google Scholar Crews, Michael Lynn. "Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)." Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2017. 263. [Comments on McCarthy's reference to EH's hawk metaphor in MF in his unpublished screenplay Whales and Men.] Google Scholar Dandeles, Gregory M. "You Give Them Money, They Give You a Stuffed Dog: Modernism and Survival in The Sun Also Rises." Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918. Ed. Nanette Norris. Lanhan, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016. 133-43. [Reading the novel's treatment of trauma through the lens of Nietzsche's The...

PEN/Hemingway Keynote Address Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 2 April 2017

Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England award the PEN Hemingway prize for the year's best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2017 PEN Hemingway prize was awarded to Yaa Gyasi for her book, Homegoing (Knopf). This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of Roxana Robinson. Robinson is the author of four novels, three story collections, and a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories. Her works have been chosen as Notable Books of the Year The New York Times, and her novel, Cost, won the Maine Fiction Award and was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Prize for Fiction. She was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, served as a Trustee of PEN American Center, and is currently the president of the Authors Guild. Robinson currently teaches creative writing in the MFA Program at Hunter College.

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece

Library Lights Out

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of Library Lights Out, an annual collaboration between the library and Housing & Residential Life at Eastern Washington University (EWU). This creative outreach program features collaborative educational and recreational activities, is a cost-sharing partnership and serves to further the organizational goals of both the library and Housing & Residential Life. Design/methodology/approach The John F. Kennedy Library at EWU was initially approached by Housing & Residential Life with the idea for an overnight event in the library, which became Library Lights Out. Student participants in this event spend the night in the library and participate in a variety of educational, team-building and fun programs, such as a library resources scavenger hunt and “capture the flag” in the library stacks. Library Lights Out has become an annual event funded primarily by Housing & Residential Life, facilitated by the library and driven by students. Findings Library Lights Out has been a successful partnership that benefits the library, students and Housing & Residential Life. Originality/value This paper adds to the limited body of literature on academic library outreach to residence halls by highlighting three unique aspects of Library Lights Out. First, it is a cost-sharing partnership which was initiated by Housing & Residential Life and not by the library. Second, it occurs in the library and not in the residence halls, unlike most library outreach to residence halls. Finally, it is an overnight sleepover event with a combination of an educational program and recreational activities and games.

Get ‘Em In, Get ‘Em Out: Finding a Road from Turnaway Data to Repurposed Space

Statistical analysis and comparison of library print and online holdings are used to reduce shelf area and inform index back-file purchases. Nikki DeMoville of California Polytechnic State University’s Robert E. Kennedy Library combined Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) JR2 Access Denied usage reports, holdings information, and print circulation data to identify journals exhibiting a high desirability for online access and low print circulation. In this presentation, DeMoville shared how further combination of this data with ScienceDirect quote lists for back-file journal packages and Web of Science metrics could be used to support the efficient de-selection of print journals, allowing the library to recover the maximum amount of physical space while also acquiring backfile access to those titles most frequently needed in electronic format. The presentation detailed the workflows and comparative methodology used to reach collection management and development decisions for journal coverage, with an emphasis on before and after metrics.

Learn by Doing: An Assessment of the Impact of Access Services in Fostering Skills Development of Access Services Student Staff at Kennedy Library

The academic library continues to formulate strategies for providing and sustaining a creative learning environment for knowledge creation. But little has been said about its role in skills building through micro employment that is enabling students to develop and integrate their academic, personal, and social skills sets. This study examines the role that Access Services plays in boosting the learning experiences of student employees in readiness for workplace integration. A survey that seeks to assess their experience was administered to 32 student employees at Access Services. The results indicate that student employees, through information delivery functions, gain personal transferable skills crucial for employment.

PEN/Hemingway Keynote Address: Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 10 April 2016

Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England award the PEN Hemingway prize for the year’s best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2016 PEN Hemingway prize was awarded to Ottessa Moshfegh for her book, Eileen (Penguin). This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of James Wood. Wood is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books , the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and The New Yorker . In 1990, Wood won Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Award; in 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism; and in 2010/11, Wood was a recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. Woods lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife, Claire Messud, and their two children.

Hemingway’s and Perkins’s Formation of Men Without Women

Ernest Hemingway and Maxwell Perkins collaborated closely on the formation of his first collection of stories published by Scribner’s— Men Without Women . Based on an examination of manuscripts in the Hemingway Collection at the Kennedy Library, and of the correspondence preserved in the Scribner’s Archive at Princeton, this note traces the selection and ordering of the stories in Men Without Women . It focuses especially on “Now I Lay Me” and Perkins’s role in encouraging Hemingway not only to publish the story, but also to place it as the capstone of the collection.

PEN/Hemingway Keynote Address Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library 19 April 2015

Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England award the PEN Hemingway prize for the year’s best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2015 PEN Hemingway prize was awarded to Arna Bontemps Hemenway for his book, Elegy on Kinderklavier (Sarabande). This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of Ann Patchett. Patchett is author of six novels, most recently State of Wonder (2011) and numerous works on nonfiction, including This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (2013). Her books have been New York Times bestsellers and New York Times notable books. She has won many awards for her work, including the PEN/ Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. Patchett has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. A fierce defender of independent bookstores, Patchett co-founded Parnassus Books in Nashville in 2011.

Hemingway’s Formation of In Our Time

Folders 96 and 97A in the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library capture moments in Hemingway’s formation of In Our Time (1925). As of the materials in Folder 97A, written in summer or early fall of 1924, Hemingway planned to include “Up in Michigan” and “Summer People,” but he had not yet decided where to place “Big Two-Hearted River.” Probably written later, the notes in Folder 96 show Hemingway’s replacing “Summer People” with “The Three-Day Blow.” Both folders suggest that Hemingway was settled on the order of marriage tales and bullfighting chapters in the collection. Hemingway’s notes in these folders reflect his shaping and reshaping the order of the stories and chapters that formed the collage of In Our Time .

News from The Hemingway Collection

News from The Hemingway Collection Stacey Chandler, Christina Fitzpatrick, and Susan Wrynn New Guide to the Ernest Hemingway Collection Released Stacey Chandler and Christina Fitzpatrick John F. Kennedy Library Archivists at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library have spent over a year updating the guide to the Ernest Hemingway Personal Papers (http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/EHPP.aspx?f=1), with the goals of improving organization and access for researchers, as well as integrating the now fully-described Other Materials series into the guide. We are excited to share the results of this work, and we compiled a list of the top ten changes in the new guide. 1. All series in the collection are now listed together. Previously, each series was described in a separate webpage, preventing researchers from searching the entire guide at once. The new version allows for a single keyword search of the entire collection, and may highlight relevant materials in unexpected parts of the collection. For example, a search for “Passos” in this guide reveals material related to John Dos Passos across many series, including Manuscripts, Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence, Other Materials, Periodicals, Scrapbooks, and Books. 2. The new formatting of the guide introduces a streamlined view of the collection by listing the folders in each box, but retains detailed document descriptions that can be viewed when a folder description is expanded. Researchers can expand descriptions by clicking on the plus mark (+) next to each folder title. For example, expanding the folder title “345. Cross Country Snow. Manuscript Fragment” opens this detailed description: “Alternative pages 6–8 for typescript/manuscript #344. Pencil draft begins ‘and drank the wine...’ pp. 6–8. 3pp. See also # 696.” To expand all descriptions simultaneously, researchers can scroll to the heading for “Container List,” then click the plus mark (+) next to “Expand / Collapse All.” [End Page 153] 3. Box numbers and folder titles are now included in the guide, making it easier for researchers to request boxes and locate documents. This also allows researchers to consistently cite every document’s physical location for the benefit of future scholars. 4. Cataloging descriptions have been reviewed for accuracy and updated as necessary, a process that will be ongoing. 5. We have researched unknown authors’ letters filed at the end of Series 3: Incoming Correspondence. The writers of twenty letters have now been identified for the first time. These individuals include artist Ludwig Bemelmans, childhood friends William A. Cordes and Emily Goetzmann, shipmate Charles S. Evans, and Percy Winner of the New York Post. We also found and cataloged additional letters from Guy Fangel, Archibald Crabbe, and Garfield David Merner. 6. Newspaper clippings and other items that were originally enclosed in letters sent to Hemingway have now been individually cataloged in Incoming Correspondence, making them searchable for the first time. The enclosures are cataloged in the same entry as the letters they accompany, preserving the original context. For example, the item previously described as “TLS Ivy Pratt 11 July 1938, London, 1 p., w/2 pp. enclosure” in Box IC06 is now listed as “TLS Ivy Pratt 11 July 1938, London, 1p., w/contract to publish THAHN in Polish, 2pp.” Similarly, researchers can now expand descriptions that include newspaper clippings to reveal information about the clipping. 7. Series 4: Other Materials is fully processed and described for the first time. Collected by Hemingway and documenting his daily life and interests, the series contains subject files on various topics, such as travel, as well as files of specific types of material, such as receipts. Items of interest include book lists, fishing logs and other notebooks, manuscripts by other writers, legal papers, and writings on the Spanish Civil War, World War I, and World War II. In the course of processing the series, we discovered that some materials were not described in previous inventories or photocopied for research use, leading us to believe that some items have never been seen by researchers. This includes materials such as binders, folders, and envelopes [End Page 154] listing word counts and other handwritten Hemingway notes. We encourage researchers to contact the research room before working with this series, so that newly-described items can be photocopied...

Beyond the Eagle's Shadow: New Histories of Latin America's Cold War

Beyond the Eagle's Shadow: New Histories of Latin America's Cold War

PEN Hemingway Remarks: Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library, 6 April 2014

Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England award the PEN Hemingway prize for the year’s best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2014 PEN Hemingway prize was awarded to NoViolet Bulawayo for her book, We Need New Names (Back Bay Books). This year we are pleased to present remarks offered by Scott Simon at the luncheon preceding the award ceremony. Simon is a noted American journalist and host of Weekend Edition Saturday on National Public Radio.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum as a cultural representation of the public memory of the president

Abstract The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is a cultural representation of the public memory of the president. The site, located in Boston, Massachusetts, welcomes thousands of visitors each year, and its exhibits aim to enhance their understanding of the Kennedy presidency. This article examines the purposes of the Kennedy Library and Museum and explores its content in order to establish whether the museum provides an accurate representation of John F. Kennedy’s achievements in office. While the approach adopted is principally one of historical enquiry in order to test the content of the museum against the president’s record in office, the range of political issues covered and the focus on a cultural symbol of his rule should make the article accessible to scholars in other disciplines. The article argues that the founders of the Kennedy Library and Museum, who were all close Kennedy associates, were keen to provide a permanent memorial to the president that focused on the idea that his achievements in office outweighed his personal flaws. Reflecting their views and the influence that they have had over the wider public perception of President Kennedy, the Kennedy Library and Museum therefore provides an overwhelmingly positive representation of the president.