The Niche: Notes On Hemingway in The New Republic Magazine

Hemingway, Ernest, Subject / Robert Littell

Published by The New Republic, Inc., New York, 1927

About this Item

Entire issue, May 18, 1927, in original wraps, small sticker at upper left showing issue date, small ink library stamp at upper edge, wraps discretely detached at spine, a few insignificant chips noted along fore edge. Article is four pages, printed in double columns, and reviews Hemingway's body of work to date. Given the cheap quality of paper used in printing, early issues of this journal have become quite scarce, and also, alas, somewhat brittle and prone to chipping. Care must be exercised when handling. From the opening, "Every once in a while somebody comes along and does something to American fiction from which it never quite recovers. Whoever does this is promptly hoisted into a special little niche, comfortable but not lucrative, running water but no bath -- the niche of the New Note in American Literature. Sherwood Anderson was the last genuine tenant, but he hasn't paid any rent since the three or four stories in The Triumph Of The Egg, which mak the rest of his work seem like a sincere and complicated fog. Ring Lardner and F. Scott Fitzgerald have sub-let the Niche from time to time, and eithe rof them might at any moment sign a ling lease. At present, the name on the door is Hemingway." Of note is the fact that the reviewer mis-quotes the title of the masterful story, Big Two-Hearted River, as Big True-Hearted River. See Hanneman. Very scarce.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Niche: Notes On Hemingway in The New Republic Magazine
• Publisher: The New Republic, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1927
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
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  • Ernest Hemingway