May 17th, 2012
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MARTHA GELLHORN ON LONELINESS: I have my own medicine against loneliness reaching the degree of despair: I read. I read as one swims to shore—when reading anything, I am not there, and therefore not alone; I am somewhere else, in the book, with those people. Probably the reason I read mainly novels; I join other lives. And also when writing because then too, I am not there, not me, not this special mass of blood and flesh with all its tedious problems; I am a conveyor, a tool, I am living in the lives I am making. Beyond these two medicines, I have nothing. But once you accept being lonely, dearest Betsy, it becomes much easier; one is not frightened of being alone. The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead, pg. 403. Picador 2007 Stay tuned for the HBO film “Hemingway & Gellhorn”, premiering Monday, May 28th at 9pm EST Photo via Independent.ie

MARTHA GELLHORN ON LONELINESS:

I have my own medicine against loneliness reaching the degree of despair: I read. I read as one swims to shore—when reading anything, I am not there, and therefore not alone; I am somewhere else, in the book, with those people. Probably the reason I read mainly novels; I join other lives. And also when writing because then too, I am not there, not me, not this special mass of blood and flesh with all its tedious problems; I am a conveyor, a tool, I am living in the lives I am making. Beyond these two medicines, I have nothing. But once you accept being lonely, dearest Betsy, it becomes much easier; one is not frightened of being alone.

The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead, pg. 403. Picador 2007

Stay tuned for the HBO film “Hemingway & Gellhorn”, premiering Monday, May 28th at 9pm EST

Photo via Independent.ie

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May 14th, 2012
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“Hemingway & Gellhorn,” starring Nicole Kidman as as journalist Martha Gellhorn and Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway, will air Monday, May 28 on HBO. The film begins in 1936 when the two meet at in a bar in Key West, Florida. Instantly, there’s a spark and soon both take off for Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War.

Refusing to be a “footnote in someone else’s life,” it’s Gellhorn’s drive and strong-willed personality that captures the imagination. 

This dramatic retelling of a dramatic relationship — with cameos from John Dos Passos, Maxwell Perkins, and Max Eastman — is sure to appeal to literary fans. 

Before you watch the film, read about this heroic, female war correspondent who reported on fascism from the front lines. Might we suggest:

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead and the Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn edited by Caroline Moorehead. 

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