One True Sentence

Writers & Readers in Pursuit of Hemingway's Art

Mark Cirino, Michael Von Cannon, Ken Burns , Lynn Novick

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David R. Godine Publisher Inc
01 December 2022

Literary studies: from c 1900 -

A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell Banks; filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Sen Hemingway, A. Scott Berg, and many others in this celebration and conversation between Hemingway and some of hismostperceptive and interesting readers.

'All you have to do is write one true sentence', Hemingway wrote in his memoir, A Moveable Feast. 'Write the truest sentence that you know'. If that is the secret to Hemingway's enduring power, what sentences continue to live in readers' minds? And why do they resonant? The host and producer of the One True Podcast have gathered the best of their program (heard by thousands of listeners) and added entirely new material for this collection of conversations about Hemingway's truest words.

From the long, whole-story-in-a-sentence line, 'I have seen the one-legged streetwalker who works the Boulevard Madeleine between the Rue Cambon and Bernheim Jeunes' limping along the pavement through the crowd on a rainy night with a beefy red faced episcopal clergyman holding an umbrella over her.', to the short, pithy line that closes The Sun Also Rises, 'Isn't it pretty to think so?', this is a collection full of delights, surprises, and insight.

'All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened', wrote Hemingway. ""'And after you're finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards, it all belongs to you'. For readers of American literature, One True Sentence is full of remembrances - of words you read and the feelings they gave you. For writers, this is an inspiring view of an element of craft - a single sentence - that can make a good story come alive and become a great story.

Introduction by: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Edited by: Mark Cirino, Michael Von Cannon
Imprint: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781567927139
ISBN 10: 1567927130
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Cirino is the host of One True Podcast. He is the author/editor of six books about Ernest Hemingway and serves as the general editor for Kent State University Press's ""Reading Hemingway"" series. He served as the literature consultant on the forthcoming cinematic adaptation of Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees. Cirino teaches American literature at the University of Evansville. Michael Von Cannon is the producer of One True Podcast. He serves as an advisory editor on the multi-volume Hemingway Letters Project and is currently working on the forthcoming The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1957-1961 (Cambridge University Press). He has published extensively on Hemingway's relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Von Cannon teaches at Florida Gulf Coast University. Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; Jackie Robinson; The Vietnam War; and Hemingway Lynn Novick has been directing and producing landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. One of the most respected documentary filmmakers and story tellers in America, Novick has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards. Her most recent documentary is Hemingway, produced, directed and written with Ken Burns.

Reviews for One True Sentence: Writers & Readers in Pursuit of Hemingway's Art

Praise for One True Sentence An enjoyable exploration of how Hemingway's influence on American literature continues to be significant....A valuable take on a canonical writer, highlighting how good work stands the test of time. -Kirkus