Boychik Lit: I Blame Ernest Hemingway

Monday, April 7, 2008

I Blame Ernest Hemingway

Every male writer with an ounce of testosterone owes a big debt to Papa. For example, without his example, how would James Jones, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, or John Milius have known to pose for their publicity photos wearing safari jackets? Why, I bet they'd have showed up in some kind of wussy Tom Wolfe ice-cream suit! With a pocket handkerchief! Full article on Ezinearticles.com.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hello Mr. Jones,

I agree! In fact I think I'm going to dig my safari jacket out of the closet and start wearing again!

I stumbled upon your blog via the Hemingway Foundation's website.

I LOVE your writing and am looking forward to reading the whole thing.

Best,
Bill; April 7, 2008 at 12:13 PM
daboychik said...: Dude, your shameless pitiful sucking up is sooooo welcome! If you scroll down to the post with the sign in the bookstore, you might be rewarded. G.; April 7, 2008 at 1:17 PM

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About me...

When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher approached me and asked with a sly grin, "You interested in mining?"
I told him absolutely not. I was going to be a writer.
Little did I suspect that he wanted to send me to a student conference on metallurgy where I could seek the fellowship of like-minded teens on a minimally supervised road-trip to the Big City.
Undeterred by my abrupt negative response, he grumbled, "Well, you're interested in mining your own business, aren't you?"
And he sent me anyway.
Now I realize I should've listened more carefully to everything he said.
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Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels, including My Inflatable Friend, Rubber Babes, and Farnsworth's Revenge. His new novel is Mr. Ballpoint. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kozinski (The Painted Bird, Being There). Publishing details and press kits at La Puerta Productions.