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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 3 august 2018
Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time

By HILLEL ITALIE liberation from Nazi occu-
Associated Press pation, described by the
NEW YORK (AP) — The author in reports published
themes and trappings soon after by Collier's mag-
are familiar for an Ernest azine.
Hemingway narrative: Par- "A Room on the Garden
is, wartime, talk of books Side" takes place in the Ritz
and wine and the scars of hotel (Hemingway liked to
battle. say that he liberated the
But the story itself has been Ritz bar) and is narrated
little known beyond the by a Hemingway stand-in
scholarly community for called Robert who shares
decades: "A Room on the the author's own nickname
Garden Side," written in — Papa. Robert and his en-
1956, is being published tourage drink wine, quote
for the first time. The brief, from Baudelaire and de-
World War II-era fiction ap- bate "the dirty trade of
pears this week in the sum- war."
mer edition of The Strand "I did it to save the lives of
Magazine, a literary quar- people who had not hired
terly which has released out to fight," the narrator ex-
obscure works by Raymond plains. "There was that and
Chandler, John Steinbeck the fact that I had learned
and others. to know and love an infan-
"Hemingway's deep love In this Aug. 21, 1950 file photo, novelist Ernest Hemingway appears at his country home in San try division and wished to
for his favorite city as it is Francisco de Paula near Havana, Cuba. serve it in any useful way I
just emerging from Nazi oc- Associated Press could.
cupation is on full display, "I also loved France and
as are the hallmarks of his the trademark elements Mal,' the story implicitly ing upon his experiences Spain next to my own coun-
prose," Strand Managing readers love in Heming- wonders whether the heri- for his classic novel "A Fare- try. I loved other countries
Editor Andrew F. Gulli wrote way." tage of Parisian culture can well to Arms." The Spanish too but the debt was paid
in an editorial note. "Steeped in talk of Marcel recover from the dark taint Civil War inspired his novel and I thought that the ac-
Kirk Curnutt, a board mem- Proust, Victor Hugo, and of fascism," Curnutt wrote. "For Whom the Bell Tolls." He count was closed, not
ber of The Hemingway So- Alexandre Dumas, and War was a longtime muse was both soldier and cor- knowing the accounts are
ciety, contributed an after- featuring a long excerpt for Hemingway. He served respondent during World never closed."q
word for the Strand, saying in French from Charles as an ambulance driver War II and was on hand in
that "the story contains all Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du during World War I, draw- Paris in August 1944 for the
'To the Sunset' is Amanda Shires'

best album yet

By STEVEN WINE ville superstar producer uke, whistles and lets out a
Associated Press Dave Cobb was clearly on gleeful "Wooo!" at the start
Amanda Shires, "To the Sun- board with the idea of cre- of the rocker "Eve's Daugh-
set" (Silver Knife/Thirty Tigers) ating something different, ter." She should be happy
The start of Amanda Shires' and he helped Shires come after writing a batch of ter-
new album sounds like a up with a 10-song set that's rific, slightly twisted tunes
spin of the dial on an old her best work yet. filled with happy hooks and
radio struggling to find a It starts with her quirky, memorable melodies.
station amid the static. Will quavery alto, which is pro- Armed with a newly earned
it be country music? Pop? cessed and multi-tracked MFA in creative writing,
Rock? Or maybe some- to excellent effect. A fine Shires serves up quotable
thing from outer space, supporting cast includes couplets about cham-
which inspired the lyrics to her husband, Jason Isbell, pagne, clothes envy and
the first song. who plays guitar riffs not music versus sports. These
Shires is way out there, heard on his own records songs would sound good This cover image released by Silver Knife/Thirty Tigers shows
an unclassifiable original, and sounds as though he's on any radio, old or new.q "To The Sunset," a release by Amanda Shires.
which is what makes "To the having a blast. Associated Press
Sunset" a pleasure. Nash- Ditto Shires, who plays the
Sheriff: Radio host Art Bell died of prescription overdose

Associated Press in Nevada said Wednes- fice said in a brief Face- ne, the sedative diazepam no indication of foul play.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Art Bell, day. book announcement . It and the muscle-relaxant Bell produced, engineered
a former syndicated AM An autopsy found the called the death an acci- carisoprodol in his system. and hosted his radio talk
radio host best known for 72-year-old Bell's death dental overdose. High blood pressure and show, "Coast to Coast AM,"
nightly shows in the 1990s April 13 at home in rural Clark County Coroner John the lung disease chronic from his radio station, KNYE,
featuring paranormal Pahrump was from "mul- Fudenberg, whose office obstructive pulmonary dis- before he left the airwaves
themes and conspiracy tiple drug intoxication from in Las Vegas handled the order were additional "sig- in 2002. Pahrump is about
theories, died of an ac- his own lawfully prescribed medical examination, said nificant conditions" in Bell's 60 miles (96 kilometers)
cidental overdose of pre- prescriptions," Nye County Bell had the painkillers oxy- death, Fudenberg said. west of Las Vegas.q
scription drugs, authorities Sheriff Sharon Wehrly's of- codone and hydrocodo- The coroner said there was