Episode · EconTalk · 2025-08-25
Russ Roberts & David Wyatt: books mentioned on EconTalk
Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
What can Ernest Hemingway teach us today about the morality of war, the eternal and transient nature of love, and how to write a masterpiece? Listen as author and teacher David Wyatt talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about Hemingway's epic For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Russ Roberts discussed For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. David Wyatt discussed Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway, Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway, and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Discussed“Our topic for today is Hemingway's novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
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Green Hills of Africa
Discussed“And by the mid30s with the two non-fictional books, Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon, he's already shifting away from that clipped style of omission and of short sentences to a much more meditative, reflective, recursive style, which finally culminates in this book.”
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Death in the Afternoon
Discussed“And by the mid30s with the two non-fictional books, Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon, he's already shifting away from that clipped style of omission and of short sentences to a much more meditative, reflective, recursive style, which finally culminates in this book.”
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In Our Time
Discussed“Hemingway calls this he calls thinking mental conversation and he uses that phrase at the end of picked your heart a river which is the last story in our time in a passage which he eventually cut a passage at the end of the last story in which Nick is walking back from fishing and he begins to think and”
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A Movable Feast
Discussed“If you take a movable feast which is published in 1964 Mary puts it together his fourth wife it's probably the most beloved book he ever wrote his memoir love this is aostumous book then in 1970 we get islands in the stream which is a much underrated again war novel set in Cuba then we get in 1986 the”
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Islands in the Stream
Discussed“If you take a movable feast which is published in 1964 Mary puts it together his fourth wife it's probably the most beloved book he ever wrote his memoir love this is aostumous book then in 1970 we get islands in the stream which is a much underrated again war novel set in Cuba then we get in 1986 the”
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Garden of Eden
Discussed“If you take a movable feast which is published in 1964 Mary puts it together his fourth wife it's probably the most beloved book he ever wrote his memoir love this is aostumous book then in 1970 we get islands in the stream which is a much underrated again war novel set in Cuba then we get in 1986 the”
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The Things They Carried
Discussed“I just read a biography of Tim O'Brien, you know, the author of The Things They Carried. Who is probably that story? The Things They Carried is the most anthologized reprinted story I think written in the 20th century.”
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