Tag: Ernest Hemingway

• Book Review Friday – The Great Gatsby

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I am a lover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So I was fascinated by director Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to recreate one of my favorite novels on the screen. Not only did the director need a movie so much larger than life, he also needed to outshine the earlier […]

  P. C. Zick

  May 17, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  1920s, Daisy Buchanan, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Leonard diCaprio, Paris, Robert Redfor, The Great Gatsby, Zelda

• Two Male Authors and Their Books

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Two books, two male authors, and two similar disillusioned looks at love kept me reading late into the night recently. I admit I read books written by women with intriguing female protagonists most of the time. It’s my preferred choice because I’m a female author who creates female protagonists in pursuit […]

  P. C. Zick

  December 13, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace

  authors, characters, Douglas Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway, fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Leaving the World, novels, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Marriage Plot, Tom Wolfe, writers

• All memory is fiction

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. -Ernest Hemingway I just finished reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a fictional account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. They married before he’d published any of his novels, and she […]

  P. C. Zick

  August 21, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  caricatures, characters, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald. autobiography, fiction, Gertrude Stein, memory, The Paris Wife, writers