June 10, 1922

Paris, France

Novelist James Joyce, still working on his masterpiece, started a drunken fight in this outdoor café today. Fellow writer- and drinking buddy- Ernest Hemingway intervened and sent the other fighter to a neutral corner.

But seriously…

February 10, 2023

Paris in the 1920s was a gathering place for a group of great young artists, among them Hemingway and Joyce. They were an odd pair. One was vigorous and burly, the other frail and almost blind. Hemingway, as a journalist and then a novelist, published regularly; Joyce labored feverishly on a much-awaited novel, Ulysses, that would revolutionize fiction.

Hemingway memorialized those magic years in A Moveable Feast.