One True Podcast
One True Podcast explores all things related to Hemingway, his work, and his world. The show is hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon. Join us in conversation with scholars, artists, political leaders, and other luminaries. For more, follow us on Twitter @1truepod. You can also email us at [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 166
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
in our time, chapter 8: "While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces"
Welcome to the eighth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
On the heels of the vignette about Nick's war injury, this bom…
in our time, chapter 7: "Nick sat against the wall of the church"
Welcome to the seventh of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
In this important vignette, Hemingway depicts Nick's war inju…
Amanda Vaill on the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a brutal and maddeningly complex historical event, with enormous repercussions on Ernest Hemingway’s life and career. To guide us through the many moving parts and frayed re…
One True Sentence #35 with Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher, author of The Dear Committee Trilogy (Dear Committee Members, The Shakespeare Requirement , and The English Experience), shares her one true sentence from Hemingway's The Sun Also R…
in our time, chapter 6: "They shot the six cabinet ministers"
Welcome to the sixth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
The scene depicts the execution of six Greek officials toward t…
in our time, chapter 5: "It was a frightfully hot day"
Welcome to the fifth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
This scene of a barricade and a retreat continues Hemingway's b…
Ahmed Honeini on William Faulkner
The two great titans of twentieth-century American literature – Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner – never met. They corresponded only a time or two; however, they were always on each other’s mind…
Stephen Koch on the Breaking Point with John Dos Passos
This episode will focus on the Spanish Civil War and how one particular incident – the murder of accused Fascist spy José Robles – ruptured the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Pass…
in our time, chapter 4: "We were in a garden at Mons"
Welcome to the fourth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
At 75 words, this short scene describes the Battle of Mons. To…
in our time, chapter 3: "Minarets stuck up in the rain"
Welcome to the third of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
In this scene, Hemingway describes the minarets rising over the…
Mark Whalan and Karen Leick on American Modernism
American modernism is a concept that is so slippery that even scholars don’t always agree on its definition. Is it a historical era, or a literary technique? Was Ernest Hemingway even a modernist? If…
One True Sentence #34 with Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky, the author of dozens of books of fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature (including Cod, Salt, and The Importance of Not Being Ernest), shares his one true sentence from Heming…
in our time, chapter 2: "The first matador got the horn"
Welcome to the second of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.
In this scene, Hemingway puts us into a chaotic bullfighting s…
in our time, chapter 1: "Everybody was drunk"
One True Podcast reads in our time! Welcome to the first of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of Hemingway’s book of vignettes.
Starting with the unforgettable opening salvo -- “Everybody w…
Verna Kale on Hemingway in 1924
What was Ernest Hemingway doing in 1924? Where was he? What were his important relationships? What were his challenges? What was he writing?
The excellent Verna Kale -- Hemingway biographer and Asso…
Suzanne del Gizzo on "A North of Italy Christmas"
‘Tis the season! And it wouldn’t be the holiday season without welcoming Suzanne del Gizzo to discuss a seasonally appropriate Hemingway work. In this episode, we examine “A North of Italy of Christm…
One True Sentence #33 with Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, author of the short story collection The Smallest of Entryways and Ernest's Way: An International Journey Through Hemingway's Life, shares her one true sentence from her gre…
Charles Scribner III on the House of Scribner
The longest and most mutually beneficial relationship of Ernest Hemingway’s life was with the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing house, a partnership that continues to the present day. Charles Scribn…
One True Sentence #32 with Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, Dad's Maybe Book, and America Fantastica, shares his one true sentence from The Sun Also Rises. Toward the end of the episode, we also reflect on T…
Michael Kim Roos on Rinaldo Rinaldi in A Farewell to Arms
Join us for a special episode devoted to Lieutenant Rinaldo Rinaldi from A Farewell to Arms!
On this episode, scholar Michael Kim Roos (co-author of the essential Reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arm…