One True Podcast reunites with the Dean of the Hemingway Short Story, the great Don Daiker!

What better way to usher in the autumn than to discuss “The Three-Day Blow,” Hemingway’s curious story from In Our Time? It is a simple tale of a couple of kids getting drunk, talking baseball and literature, but there is simmering Hemingwayesque tension beneath the surface.

Don guides us through all the elements of this story, including Bill’s function as a character, the absent presence of both Bill’s father and Marjorie, and Hemingway’s description of the Michigan setting. We also explore the story’s role as a sequel to “The End of Something.”

Enjoy this seasonally appropriate episode with a drink that keeps you warm, but remember: no opening up any new bottles.

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Don Daiker has joined us previously to discuss The Nick Adams Stories. As well, please enjoy Lisa Tyler’s episode on the prequel to this story, “The End of Something."

In this episode, we welcome Lesley Blume back to One True Podcast to mark the 10th anniversary of her acclaimed narrative nonfiction book Everybody Behaves Badly, which chronicles the real-life story behind Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

The conversation spans Blume's research process, Hemingway's charisma, the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald in brokering Hemingway's career, the mythological dimensions of Lady Brett Ashley, and the iconic photo on the cover of Blume's book. Throughout this wide-ranging conversation, we also discuss A Moveable Feast, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and Blume's forthcoming book A Devil's Bargain, which examines the Manson murders.

As with the rest of our episodes on The Sun Also Rises, we have supplemented our conversation with an excerpt from the audio book of The Sun Also Rises, performed by William Hurt. Thanks to Simon and Schuster for their partnership.

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Welcome to another installment of One True Podcast! A wonderful scholar, raconteur, and true devotee to the ritual of bullfighting, Larry Belcher guides us through the ways Hemingway presents bullfighting in The Sun Also Rises. We explore what bullfighting meant to Hemingway, to Jake Barnes, and its function in the novel. Larry provides historical and cultural context to this controversial and foreign aspect of The Sun Also Rises.

Join us as we learn from Larry’s years of bullfighting fandom, his decades of living in Spain, running with the bulls, and working with Hemingway’s great masterpiece. Nobody ever lives their life all the way up, except for Larry Belcher.

This episode is the sixth episode One True Podcast has dedicated to the centenary of The Sun Also Rises this year. As with the rest of the episodes, we have supplemented our conversation with Larry Belcher with an excerpt from chapter 18 of the audio book of The Sun Also Rises, performed by William Hurt. Thanks to Simon and Schuster for their partnership.

So go grab your leather wine-bottles and enjoy the episode!