70 Days With Hemingway And Me

You can call me Ernie. But don't expect me to answer to that.

My name is Bill.

Here's the story behind my web site:

I woke up one morning and decided I needed to accomplish a few things before my next birthday.

Call it what you will - a flight of fancy? A hankerin' to read Hemingway? My mid-life crisis?

Some people climb mountains. Some jump out of planes. I decided to spend time -- 70 days, in fact -- with the man called "the most influential writer of the last century."

I don't know what's going to happen here. Maybe nothing. Maybe something magical. I have no idea. But here's the deal: While I read Hemingway's classic books (all 10 of 'em back to back, in order, starting with the first), I won't read anything else. No other books. No newspapers. No magazines. Nope. It's all Ernest, all the time.

My 70 Days With Hemingway begins June 10th and ends August 18th, 2009.