Ernest Hemingway

College reading lists are usually obvious, clichéd and a little pretentious. Even James Franco's Yale reading list seems largely predictable. But, Like James Franco, we should embrace pretension from time to time to remind ourselves of the…

The first thing I read by Ernest Hemingway was a short story called 'Hills Like White Elephants'. I had never read anything like it before. It kind of changed everything for me. I threw away my thesaurus that day. Okay, I lied; I didn't…