What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago

What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago
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In an untitled, three-page short story, Ernest Hemingway casts F. Scott Fitzgerald as a scrappy boxer who leaves the ring battered and disfigured but ultimately victorious.

He sketches out a novel he’ll never write, “A New Slain Knight,” calling it a “picaresque novel for America” that will follow his protagonist through a prison escape, a bank robbery and noirish double-crosses.

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