[Little Bill]

One of the problems with the Frogs, Victorian English, and most of the 20's expats, except Hemingway, whom I detest, is that they think way to much and then put every damned though on paper.

Hemingway at least had the grace to use short declarative sentences. My problem with Hemingway is that he was a fan not a participant. He wrote about what he saw or heard unlike Dos Pasos, for example, not what he participated in.

[gcruse]

“Hemingway, whom I detest”

I’ve never understood the fascination with Hemingway. To me, his work is reminiscent of a child’s alphabet blocks, simplistic to the point of primitivism.

The twenty’s best writer, IMO, is Sinclar Lewis followed by F. Scott Fitzgerald and, on the left, John dos Passos.