Hemingway\u2019s first book of short stories, In Our Time, is the most experimental work of his career and his most challenging. It is also an early masterpiece, with brutal, opaque stories like \u201cIndian Camp,\u201d \u201cThe Battler,\u201d and "Soldier's Home."
For this episode, we are joined by J. Gerald Kennedy, editor of the new Norton Critical Edition of In Our Time, to discuss the emergence of the Hemingway style, the book as a narrative sequence, its composition, its legacy, and even the discarded fragment of metafiction called \u201cOn Writing.\u201d\xa0
From classics like \u201cBig Two-Hearted River\u201d to less-discussed stories and vignettes, Kennedy guides us through this fascinating Hemingway work. Join us!\xa0