1. On our partnership
After all, writing a book together is easier than hanging kitchen wallpaper.
2. Wayne and El,
I’ve had enough of postmodern griping, whatever post-modern means.
I have just read “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” for the hundredth time. It’s the story of our suicide. The woman gives birth and the man kills. The snows melt and the deer die.
See ya! Remember 42.
A friend, 2011 email
3. For months, our working title for this book was The War on Hemingway.
Tags: Hemingway, Hemingway's Island, Postmodernism, Snows of Kilimanjaro