Everything that Rises Must Converge: Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”

Hemingway, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Richardson, Ogden Stewart and Pat Guthrie at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, 1925. Photo: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

When I heard the shocking news of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide on July 2, 1961, I was sipping a Pernod in a Paris bar/café named Storyville, named after the famous “red light district” in New Orleans where I could hear jazz on LPs. I could not have imagined a more suitable place to take-in the details that “Papa,” as he was known...