Papa's advice on writing was to write about what you know. He knew Michigan. He knew the woods. He knew fish. He knew the beauty to be found in the simplicity of nature and language.
My favorite work of Ernesto's is his collection of short stories entitled, The Nick Adams Stories. These stories are thought to have paralleled Hemingways own boyhood in Upper Michigan. Within this collection is a beauty called "Big Two-Hearted River, Part 1." The Michigan wilderness is the main character in this story and the reader is treated to a front row seat to this beauty as Nick trudges through the landscape.
Read Hem's Big Two-Hearted River here.
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