Say what you want about Hemingway the man, or even about the particulars of his writing: his treatment of woman characters, his casual, 1920-style antisemitism. All of this is true. But when you pick up a collection of his early writings like the collection of short fiction In Our Time, it feels as cool and crisp as ever. He had such an impact on the prose style of the twentieth century, yet this book still feels artistically radical, nearly a hundred years after its publication.
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