Writers and artists, take note: the publishing house Scribner recently published a “restored version” of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, “restored” by Hemingway’s grandson in such a way as to make the grandson’s grandmother–Mrs. Hemingway #2–more sympathetic in the book. (Grandson also added chapters in which Hemingway describes Ford Madox Ford’s body odor and the size of\u00a0 Scott Fitzgerald’s wang.)<\/p>\n
Irritated, or fascinated, or concerned about future depictions of my own bodily disappointments, I asked three of my favorite funny writers–Sandra Tsing Loh<\/a>, Ben Schott<\/a>, and Patricia Marx<\/a>–to goof on what classics of literature they’d <\/em>like to revamp. The results air this weekend on public radio’s Studio 360 (the episode is here<\/a>.) Added bonus: because of the aforementioned Fitzgerald fact, Studio 360’s buttoned-down, Omaha-bred host Kurt Andersen says “penis” on air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writers and artists, take note: the publishing house Scribner recently published a “restored version” of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, “restored” by Hemingway’s grandson in such a way as to make the grandson’s grandmother–Mrs. Hemingway #2–more sympathetic in the book. (Grandson also added chapters in which Hemingway describes Ford Madox Ford’s body odor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}