{"id":3089,"date":"2022-11-27T06:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2022-11-27T06:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:41:36","slug":"almost-hemingway-the-adventures-of-negly-farson-foreign-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negly Farson, Foreign Correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Rex Bowman &amp; Carlos Santos, 2022, University of Virginia Press, Charlottsville and London&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is one of the choices for our men&#8217;s book club.  It is well-written and covers the life of a forgotten journalist and author who was often compared to Hemingway during his time.  The only problem I had with the book is that it didn&#8217;t seem to interest me very much.  The telling of Farson&#8217;s life and adventures second hand was probably not as compelling as Farson&#8217;s writings themselve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book told of each of Farson&#8217;s adventures but was done in a dry, uninspired manner that seemed much like a news report even though they quoted Farson frequently.  Farson&#8217;s life and writings were definitely interesting enough to deserve a book about it. I don&#8217;t know whether I would enjoy reading Farson&#8217;s books, but this biography has already told me the stories so it&#8217;s not likely now that I would pick up any of those works.  Too bad; they might have been good reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rex Bowman &amp; Carlos Santos, 2022, University of Virginia Press, Charlottsville and London&nbsp; This book is one of the choices for our men&#8217;s book club. It is well-written and covers the life of a forgotten journalist and author who <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3089\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-biography","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}