Paul Hendrickson’s Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961, is one of the most significant books about the author to come along in years. The Washington Post called it “a large-minded, rigorously fair summation of the best thought on Hemingway’s writing, his life, traumas, pathologies, his family and friends, his even more abundant cast of personal, literary and cultural enemies.

Dallasites have a chance to meet author Paul Hendrickson at 6 p.m. this Thursday, when he speaks at a benefit for the Lee Park & Arlington Hall Conservancy.

When: May 10, 2012
Where: Arlington Hall @ Lee Park
Price: $25-$35
Link: http://www.leeparkconservancy.org/