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
One True Sentence #4 with Verna Kale
One True Podcast asks Verna Kale her choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.” Kale's sentence comes from the short story "Soldier's Home." Listen in!
Seán Hemingway on The Old Man and the Sea
One True Podcast was privileged to welcome Seán Hemingway – editor of the Hemingway Library Editions and the grandson of the writer – to discuss the new edition of The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway …
John Irvin on The Garden of Eden Film
One True Podcast welcomes award-winning director John Irvin to talk about his 2008 film adaptation of Hemingway's posthumous novel The Garden of Eden.
Irvin discusses the role Hemingway played in hi…
One True Sentence #3 with Gail Sinclair
One True Podcast asks Gail Sinclair her choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years
One True Podcast welcomes Robert W. Trogdon to discuss his beautiful new publication, the Library of America edition of Hemingway’s early writing, from 1918-1926.
Trogdon discusses his role as a tex…
Representative Jim McGovern on the Finca Vigía Foundation
One True Podcast understands that we all can’t get together at El Floridita and while away the afternoon telling stories and talking about Hemingway. However, we can serve up our first batch of Papa…
Bob Vila on the Finca Vigía Preservation Project
One True Podcast understands that we all can’t get together at El Floridita and while away the afternoon telling stories and talking about Hemingway. However, we can serve up our first batch of Papa…
One True Sentence #2 with Craig McDonald
One True Podcast asks Craig McDonald his choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Joseph M. Flora on "The Battler"
Join us as we talk with esteemed scholar Joe Flora about "The Battler," Hemingway's classic Nick Adams story from In Our Time.
Flora, who is the author of the canonical Hemingway's Nick Adams and Erne…
One True Sentence #1 with Carl P. Eby
One True Podcast asks Carl P. Eby his choice for Hemingway’s “one true sentence.”
Susan K. Harris on Mark Twain
In Green Hills of Africa, the 1935 account of his safari, Hemingway made his most enduring statement of literary criticism. He wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark T…
Elizabeth Outka on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
In an episode that is unfortunately too timely, One True Podcast welcomes Elizabeth Outka to discuss the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, writers' responses to it, and the way it compares to our current exper…
James Plath on "Big Two-Hearted River"
One True Podcast is pleased to go down to the river with James Plath, Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, to discuss one of Hemingway’s early masterpieces.
Plath discusses the many …
Jerry Fielder and Anne E. Havinga on the Karsh Photograph
On this episode, we welcome to the show Jerry Fielder and Anne E. Havinga to discuss Yousuf Karsh's portrait of Hemingway, which is without a doubt the most iconic image of the writer.
Who was Karsh…
Andrew Farah on Hemingway's Brain
On this episode of One True Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrew Farah, author of Hemingway’s Brain, who argues that Hemingway was misdiagnosed and suffered from dementia in his later years.
With a p…
Lesley Blume on The Sun Also Rises
Lesley Blume joins One True Podcast to discuss Everybody Behaves Badly, her bestselling profile of the background of The Sun Also Rises.
Blume talks about Paris and Pamplona in the 1920s, the actua…
Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis on Cuba
One True Podcast continues its exploration of the places that defined Hemingway and that Hemingway helped define. We return to Cuba, joined by Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the man President Obama nominated t…
Scott Donaldson on the Iceberg Theory
On this episode we welcome Scott Donaldson, the legendary Hemingway biographer, to discuss the iceberg principle of writing. He explores the function of Hemingway’s iceberg style, examines various ex…
Mark Thompson on the Italian Front of WWI
In this episode, the brilliant historian Mark Thompson, author of the magisterial The White War, separates fact from fiction as he analyzes Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, including its epic depictio…
Marc Dudley on Race
One True Podcast took the occasion of Toni Morrison’s death to consider the way race emerges as a key factor in Hemingway’s writing. In this episode, we turn to one of the most prominent Hemingway sc…