fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
Ernest Hemingway's most famous book is his simplest and he uses that simplicity to tell a very specific narrative with broad metaphorical applicability. In the micro, The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, the titular old man, who spends days at sea catching a giant marlin. In the macro, it's a [...]
Simone de Rochefort's wonderful essay about playing Stardew Valley as Ernest Hemingway offers exactly the type of unique insight that makes me love reading video game criticism while also offering exactly the type of weird cross-genre mashup that I often attempt. (I also fall squarely into the overlapping portion of the Venn diagram of people [...]
Having learned the art of brevity from his time as a journalist, Ernest Hemingway created what became known as iceberg theory: By omitting everything but the barest necessities of narrative, a capable writer lets the reader intuit deeper, thematic truths, thereby improving the reading experience and strengthening the story. One of the side effects of [...]
Songs & Stories 