Today is also the birthday of surrealist painter Joan Miro. Miro was a good friend of Ernest Hemingway's and was Hemingway's preferred timekeeper in the impromptu boxing matches he sometimes had a the American Club in Paris. On page 99 in A Book of Ages I retell the story of the time in 1929 when Hemingway got his ears boxed by Canadian writer Morley Callaghan. Hemingway blamed F. Scott Fitzgerald who was sitting in for Miro. Miro may have been a reliable timekeeper but he also painted some rather surreal timepieces.
My favorite stories in the book are the ones in which various artists and literary lions cross paths. A Book of Ages is a perfect gift for Joan Miro's birthday or anyone else's.
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- Er-H
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Eric Hanson has been an illustrator and writer for more than twenty years. His artwork has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Spy, the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Gourmet, the Believer and other publications. His work has appeared regularly in juried annuals from Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, Luerzer’s Archive (200 Best Illustrators Worldwide,) Print, I.D., A.I.G.A., and American Illustration. Design clients include, Aesthetic Apparatus, Duffy, Robert Valentine, Pentagram, Ogilvy, Stoltze Design, AirConditionedLA, Fallon, Paul Davis, Louise Fili, Kate Spade, Barney's, Tolleson, Landor, Willams Sonoma, Barneys, Nordstrom, Target, Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York Review Books, Chronicle, Random House and Pantheon. The illustrations and text on this blog are the property of Eric Hanson, who holds the copyright©. His fiction and satire have been published by McSweeney's, the Atlantic, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, The Paris Review, and others. He is the author of A Book of Ages, which was published by Random House in 2008.
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