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John Irving Hates Hemingway

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In this excerpt from an interview promoting his thirteenth novel, In One Person, to be published by Simon & Schuster in May, the author of The World According to Garp and Cider House Rules doesn't pull any punches in expressing his distaste for Ernest Hemingway. "Sentences are too short, too unimaginative," he says. "Tough guy, stiff upper lip. Macho crap. I just never liked it, not a word of it."


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