Mailer and Hemingway

Sum of the Parts

Authors

  • Stone Meredith Capella University Author

Keywords:

New Journalism, Ernest Hemingway, literary journalism, literary reportage, masculine style, eyewitness reporting, American nonfiction

Abstract

Ernest Hemingway and Norman Mailer pushed the boundaries of American journalism. Both writers use masculine metaphors and personal experience to report current ideas in a variety of media outlets and, in particular, Esquire magazine. But their reporting is not sophistic or self-indulgent. Instead, it is measured and multifarious, built on a framework of four key pillars: setting the scene, dialogue, status detail, and point-of-view. These four literary devices create a realistic world in which the subjects become characters and the details of the experience are as important as the experience itself.

Author Biography

  • Stone Meredith, Capella University

    Stone Meredith teaches writing across the disciplines and develops writing resources for Capella University. She has published articles on Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the popular culture of Florida. The majority of her academic research examines American authors in multiple media of publication. Her latest article, “Old Man at Sea: Papa’s Havana Home,” details her perspective as a Floridian traveling 90 miles south to the island that lovingly preserves Hemingway’s legend.

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Published

2026-10-10

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2014): Future Bound

Section

Articles