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Lay Sion Ng on the Natural World in The Sun Also Rises

In this episode, we sit down with scholar Lay Sion Ng for a wide-ranging conversation about Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Ng, the author of Hemingway, Ecol

Don Daiker on "The Three-Day Blow"

One True Podcast reunites with the Dean of the Hemingway Short Story, the great Don Daiker!  What better way to usher in the autumn than to discuss “The Three-Day Blow,”

Lesley Blume on the Backstory of The Sun Also Rises

In this episode, we welcome Lesley Blume back to One True Podcast to mark the 10th anniversary of her acclaimed narrative nonfiction book Everybody Behaves Badly, which c

Larry Belcher on Bullfights in The Sun Also Rises

Welcome to another installment of One True Podcast! A wonderful scholar, raconteur, and true devotee to the ritual of bullfighting, Larry Belcher guides us through the wa

One True Sentence #41 with Virginia Evans

Virginia Evans, the 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award winner for her novel The Correspondent, joins us to discuss her one true sentence from Hemingway: “You must be prepared to wo

One True Book Club: Under Fire, Part 3--with Jay Winter

Join us for the final installment of One True Book Club ’26! In this series of episodes, we are reading the Hemingway-relevant selection, Under Fire by Henri Barbusse, th

One True Sentence #40 with David Morrell

Welcome back to the fortieth edition of our favorite literary parlor game as our guests choose their favorite sentence from everything Hemingway ever wrote in prose, poet

David Wyatt on Thinking in The Sun Also Rises

Welcome to our fifth episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises! On today’s show, we welcome the always excellent David Wyatt to explore the way Hemingway re

One True Book Club: Under Fire, Part 2

Join us for the second of three installments of One True Book Club ’26! In this series of episodes, we are reading the Hemingway-relevant selection, Under Fire by Henri B

Julia Cooke on Martha Gellhorn

In this episode, we welcome Julia Cooke to discuss her new book, Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World, which profiles three pioneerin

One True Book Club: Under Fire, Part 1

One True Podcast does its part to help your summer reading lists by covering a book that is not by Hemingway, but is Hemingway-relevant: Henri Barbusse’s Under Fire, the

Alex Vernon on Tim O'Brien

Live from the University of Evansville campus and the Shanklin Theatre, where Rami Malek once trod the boards…  One True Podcast welcomes Alex Vernon for an interview re

Larry Grimes on Religion in The Sun Also Rises

In our fourth episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we examine the theme of religion and its role in the novel. From the title, the epigraphs, the pil

Jackson Bryer on the Fitzgerald Insult in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Legendary scholar Jackson Bryer joins us once again, this time to discuss one controversial moment in Hemingway’s career, his vicious “poor Scott Fitzgerald” swipe in the

Elena Zolotariov on The Torrents of Spring

In the midst of our centenary festivities around The Sun Also Rises, One True Podcast takes an opportunity to celebrate another Hemingway work published in 1926: The Torr

Jeremy Kaye on Robert Cohn and Anti-Semitism in The Sun Also Rises

In our third episode celebrating the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we examine the novel’s anti-Semitic streak and the central role of its Jewish character, Robert Cohn

Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein

On the happy occasion of the publication of Francesca Wade’s magnificent Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, we speak with the biographer about Stein’s life, work, and complica

Count Mippipopolous in The Sun Also Rises

In our second episode devoted to the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we turn our focus to the beloved Count Mippipopolous.  He’s an epicurean and an entrepreneur; he’s

Susan Shillinglaw on John Steinbeck

We are thrilled to welcome Susan Shillinglaw, the preeminent John Steinbeck scholar, to discuss one of Hemingway’s contemporaries and fellow Nobel laureates.  Although H

Carl Eby on How Hemingway Wrote The Sun Also Rises

Throughout the course of this year, we will celebrate the centenary of The Sun Also Rises by inviting guests on the show to talk about fascinating aspects of the book and