One True Podcast
1) Greer Rising and Eileen Martin on Buck Lanham
One True Podcast examines the most important male friendship of the last fifteen years of Hemingway’s life, his extraordinary relationship with Major General “Buck” Lanham, whom he met when he was an ...Show More
2) Lavinia Greacen on Chink Dorman-Smith
One True Podcast explores one of the most influential friends in Hemingway’s life: Eric “Chink” Dorman-Smith. Although Chink has been mentioned several times during past episodes, we finally devote an...Show More
3) A Tribute to Patrick Hemingway with Sandra Spanier
At One True Podcast we were sad to hear of the death of Patrick Hemingway, the middle son of Ernest, who died on September 2, 2025. Patrick Hemingway (1928-2025) lived a life that was truly Hemingwaye...Show More
4) Lisa Tyler on "The End of Something"
One True Podcast continues our celebration of the centenary of Hemingway’s In Our Time by examining a classic Nick Adams story: "The End of Something." We welcome Lisa Tyler to discuss the story, its ...Show More
5) One True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 3--with Ilan Stavans
One True Podcast concludes its One True Book Club for the year with its third of three installments on W.H. Hudson’s 1885 novel, The Purple Land. This final episode covers chapter 21 to the end. We ex...Show More
6) Hemingway's Cats
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion about Hemingway’s cats! Ernest Hemingway was one of the most famous cat lovers in all of American literature, so we celebrate his passion for cats with three con...Show More
7) Debra Moddelmog on the Wound Theory
About seventy-five years ago, scholar Philip Young’s “wound theory” revolutionized Hemingway studies with a thesis that argued that Hemingway’s entire body of work was a series of responses to the inj...Show More
8) One True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 2
One True Podcast continues our summer book club on The Purple Land, the 1885 novel written by W.H. Hudson and read and re-read by Robert Cohn. In this episode, we explore Chapters 12-20. We revisit th...Show More
9) The Ending of A Farewell to Arms
On the happy occasion of Mark’s new Norton Library edition of A Farewell to Arms, One True Podcast goes deep into its vault. We are at least releasing to the general public one of our seldom-heard Pat...Show More
10) One True Book Club: The Purple Land, Part 1
One True Podcast ushers in the summer by reading a book that is not by Hemingway, but is Hemingway-relevant: W.H. Hudson’s The Purple Land, the 1885 novel that Jake Barnes name-drops in The Sun Also R...Show More