"One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art" With Dr. Mark Cirino

Hemingway scholar and author, Dr. Mark Cirino joins us to discuss his latest book, One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway's Art. Dr. Cirino will talk about Hemingway's craft from the inside out, by looking at a few sentences that he finds particularly definitive to his style and invite people to bring their own "one true sentences" to the talk and share them as well. 

“All you have to do is write one true sentence,” Hemingway wrote in his memoir, A Moveable Feast. “Write the truest sentence that you know.” If that is the secret to Hemingway’s enduring power, what sentences continue to live in readers’ minds? And why do they resonant? The host and producer of the One True Podcast have gathered the best of their program (heard by thousands of listeners) and added entirely new material for this collection of conversations about Hemingway’s truest words.

Brought to you in partnership with the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. 

About Mark Cirino
Mark Cirino received his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center-CUNY. Of his eight books about American literature as a writer or editor, his most recent is One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art (2022), with Michael Von Cannon. He serves as the General Editor for Kent State University Press's “Reading Hemingway” series, for which he wrote the volume on Across the River and Into the Trees (2016) and co-edited Reading Winner Take Nothing (2021) with former UE student Susan Vandagriff. Dr. Cirino is the host of the popular Hemingway Society-sponsored podcast, One True Podcast.