Garden & Gun (which I love) has a short piece on the upcoming Hemingway book by Paul Hendrickson I have on my wish list: Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961. I wish I could link to it (I wish the whole issue was online because it's especially good this month - see this article on Wendell Berry). I was already intrigued by Hendrickson's book as I've sort of been a Hemingway fan forever - but not so much all of his work itself as the interesting way he lived. It's odd because I don't admire him, especially when it comes to his relationships with his wives (Oh, Hadley!) but I do find him never boring. Plus, when he was good, he was very very good - I've never forgotten reading "Indian Camp" the first time for example and could there be a simpler story, but wow! What a punch to the gut! So Hemingway books catch my eye and this one, about his years with the Pilar sounds less like "why did he write this way" and more like "this is how he lived". Here's a bit from the PW starred review:

When Hemingway purchased the sleek fishing boat Pilar in 1934, he was on the cusp of literary celebrity, flush with good health, and ebullient about pursuing deep sea adventures. The release from his desk was a reward for productive writing and the change replenished his creative energy. But eventually Hemingway's health and work declined. When he committed suicide in 1961, he hadn't been aboard the Pilar in many months. Acutely sensitive to his subject's volatile, "gratuitously mean" personality, Hendrickson offers fascinating details and sheds new light on Hemingway's kinder, more generous side from interviews with people befriended by Hemingway in his prime.

One of my favorite Ray Bradbury stories is "The Kilimanjaro Device"; Ray was clearly a Hemingway fan as well. (Follow the link to read it online as it originally appeared in LIFE.)