September 2025: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.
Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.
Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
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Suggested Indie Bookstores:
Hearthside Books (Juneau, AL)
BookPeople (Austin, TX)
Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston, TX)
Loudmouth Books (Indianapolis, IN)
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Favorite Quotes:
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
“Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.”
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
“There are so many sorts of hunger. In the spring there are more. But that’s gone now. Memory is hunger.”
“all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be.”
“In the meantime I would write a long story about whatever I knew best.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
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Other Stuff I’m Into Right Now:
Pink skies
Nachos
When my cat glares at me
The “Adult Pirate” book genre
Running and not hating every second of it
Giant tote bags
The Crock Pot
