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19b. Bonus: Simone de Rochefort on Ernest Hemingway.


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For me, in coming to Hemingway in the 2010s as a queer woman, to start

reading the work of this man who can be incredibly polarizing and incredibly
cruel to women and queer people (although that’s very complicated…)—for me,
having the context of who he was and the dramatic backstory behind [The Sun
Also Rises] made me able to deal with the ugly parts of it a little more.

Simone de Rochefort is a Senior Video

Producer at Polygon, where she co-hosts the
podcast The Polygon Show. She’s also one of the hosts of the tech podcast
Rocket on Relay FM, which recently celebrated
its 250th episode. And, luckily for us, she is also a passionate amateur
Hemingway enthusiast. We were excited to bring her on the show to talk about
how and why she fell in love with Hemingway, how she navigates his more
problematic aspects, and how to reclaim Hemingway for women and queers.

Show Notes.

Simone de Rochefort on Twitter, her podcasts

The Polygon Show and Rocket, and her
work on Polygon’s YouTube channel.

Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast and the re-edited 2009 version.

Other Ernest Hemingway novels mentioned: The Sun Also

Rises, A Farewell to
Arms, and The Garden of
Eden.

A. Scott Berg: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.

Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald Perkins

Correspondence.

Matthew J. Bruccoli: Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous

Friendship.

Lesley M. M. Blume: Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind

Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises.

Djuna Barnes: Nightwood.

Our episodes on the Iliad and The

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Mikaella Clements: The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway.

Simone’s quote comes from Adam Gopnik: Hemingway, the

Sensualist.

Simone discusses her Dream

Daddy
avatar on The Polygon Show episode
7.

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