newyorker.com/magazine/1950/05/13/how-do-you-like-it-now-gentlemen

Lillian Ross’s 1950 profile of Ernest Hemingway. “I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.”


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