In her essay Last Words, Joan Didion describes the literary detritus left behind in the wake of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide: “a discrete body of work different in kind from, and in fact tending to obscure, the body of work published by Hemingway in his own lifetime.” The continual publication – and the fact that Hemingway had no control over it – disconcerts Didion.
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In her essay Last Words, Joan Didion describes the literary detritus left behind in the wake of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide: “a discrete body of work different in kind from, and in fact tending to obscure, the body of work published by Hemingway in his own lifetime.” The continual publication – and the fact that Hemingway had no control over it – disconcerts Didion.