03.JUL.10 06:19 AM

I presented my paper this morning. The distinction of being the very last paper presented at the 2010 Ernest Hemingway conference is now mine. It's a little anticlimatic to present a paper that you have spent a year working on in 20 minutes than rush off for Geneva.

That's where we are for the evening. We fly out early tomorrow morning. So, to those of you who have emailed or otherwise communicated, I will talk to you soon.

I recorded the presentation and will post the audio file when I get home. It's  time for a siesta.   

"The Mirror above the Bar" closed the 2010 International Hemingway Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland! I'll be posting the audio file soon.

Interested in the Hemingway Society?

Visit it here.
Listen to Ken's presentation here.

Vida (fiction)

"Baja California sticks out. It is a jut of land bent slightly at its center, a sweaty appendage dangling between the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez. ...Almost daily, in the big blue bay ships drop anchor, tender their passengers ashore in the morning, and tender them aboard in the afternoon. ... Noah arrived this way."

Solitaire (poetry)

"Place the Rich Queen

Beneath the Spade King

Hang the Jack of Clubs from her gem ..."