One True Podcast

Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon

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One True Podcast explores all things related to Hemingway, his work, and his world. The show is hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon. Join us in conversation with scholars, artists, political leaders, and other luminaries. For more, follow us on Twitter @1truepod. You can also email us at 1truepod@gmail.com.

3 DAYS AGO

Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years, Part 2

Robert W. Trogdon joins One True Podcast to share the treasures of the new Library of America volume he has edited: A Farewell to Arms and Other Writings, 1927-1932. We discuss Hemingway and his life during those magical, turbulent years, and also the great work he produced.From his second short story collection, Men Without Women to his second novel, A Farewell to Arms, to the unexpected turn his career takes, the bullfighting treatise titled Death in the Afternoon, Trogdon guides us through...

53 min
OCT 17

in our time, chapter 14: "If it happened right down close in front of you"

Welcome to the fourteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This episode continues Hemingway’s exploration of bullfighting and violence through a study of Nicanor Villalta. In two short paragraphs, Hemingway masterfully captures the movement of matador and bull, leading up to the pivotal image where "Villalta became one with the bull." We discuss how Hemingway depicts good vs. bad bullfighters; we consider ...

42 min
OCT 14

in our time, chapter 13: "The crowd shouted all the time"

Welcome to the thirteenth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.This episode continues Hemingway’s exploration of bullfighting and violence. This chapter is the second of the five consecutive bullfighting sketches Hemingway placed towards the end of in our time. A raucous crowd objects to a bad bullfight, leading to the humiliating cutting of a matador’s pigtails. We discuss the narrator’s relationship to the incompe...

46 min
SEP 26

One True Sentence #37 with Stewart O'Nan

Stewart O’Nan, the prolific author of West of Sunset and other works of fiction and non-fiction, shares his one true sentence from “The End of Something.”

40 min
SEP 16

Olivia Carr Edenfield on "Cross-Country Snow"

One True Podcast takes on another classic Hemingway short story as Olivia Carr Edenfield joins us to discuss “Cross-Country Snow,” the beloved Nick Adams story from In Our Time. Prof. Edenfield discusses how this skiing trip links Nick’s past with his future, how it fits as a crucial pivot in the story cycle, the Nick-George relationship, the mysterious waitress, the wonderful description of skiing, how the story reflects Hemingway’s biography of the mid-1920s … and that curious title.Th...

54 min
SEP 5

in our time, chapter 12: "They whack whacked the white horse"

Welcome to the twelfth of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this episode, we discuss Hemingway's powerful depiction of a bullfighting scene between bull and horse. We start out with that famous "whack whacked" opening before turning to what might be an equally important and seriously overlooked (by us!) part of the story. In addition, we read this vignette in light of Hemingway's remarks about gored horses from T...

50 min
SEP 2

in our time, chapter 11: "In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy"

Welcome to the eleventh of our eighteen shows celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.Listeners might be familiar with this vignette as the short story "The Revolutionist" from Hemingway's bigger collection In Our Time published in 1925. How does the vignette characterize the post-WWI communist revolution and its revolutionaries as well as counter-responses in Hungary, Italy, and Switzerland? Why does the narrator seem to fixate on cl...

58 min
AUG 19

One True Sentence #36 with Javier Fuentes

Javier Fuentes, the 2024 PEN/Hemingway winner for Countries of Origin, shares his one true sentence from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."

37 min

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Jan 24

Jazzeum

I listen to a few other pods but only this one continuously. It’s simply the most fascinating pod out there, discussing Hemingway from all his angles.
Great Pod

Jan 9

Robert_Roy

Here’s my OTS. “Nick looked down into the clear, brown water, colored from the pebbly bottom, and watched the trout keeping themselves steady in the current with wavering fins.”
epic

03/30/2023

Thecoolkidnoahc

i listen to this epicness every day
Pretentious guests!

12/31/2023

DreamZoner

Great concept. Poor selection of guests. Quasi-racist, pretentious, self-absorbed, stupidly cunning, for the most part. O, Hermes, what a waste! Hemingway would have hated them.

One True Podcast explores all things related to Hemingway, his work, and his world. The show is hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon. Join us in conversation with scholars, artists, political leaders, and other luminaries. For more, follow us on Twitter @1truepod. You can also email us at 1truepod@gmail.com.

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Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon
Years Active

2019 - 2024
Episodes

140
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Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years, Part 2

in our time, chapter 14: "If it happened right down close in front of you"

in our time, chapter 13: "The crowd shouted all the time"

One True Sentence #37 with Stewart O'Nan

Olivia Carr Edenfield on "Cross-Country Snow"

in our time, chapter 12: "They whack whacked the white horse"

in our time, chapter 11: "In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy"

One True Sentence #36 with Javier Fuentes

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Robert W. Trogdon on the Early Years, Part 2

in our time, chapter 14: "If it happened right down close in front of you"

in our time, chapter 13: "The crowd shouted all the time"

One True Sentence #37 with Stewart O'Nan

Olivia Carr Edenfield on "Cross-Country Snow"

in our time, chapter 12: "They whack whacked the white horse"

in our time, chapter 11: "In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy"

One True Sentence #36 with Javier Fuentes

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