One Interview and Three Interruptions
Review of the Melville House paperback edition (2015) collecting 4 interviews and conversations previously published in The Paris Review (1958), the Atlantic Monthly (1965), the Toronto Star Weekly magazine (1958), and Esquire Magazine (1962).

”You’ve come to my house without permission,” he said quietly. “It’s not right.”
I said I was from The Star Weekly, the paper he once worked for, and that I tried to telephone.
“It’s not right,” he repeated, “I’m working on a book and I don’t give interviews. I want that understood. But c’mon in.” - excerpt from Dropping In On Hemingway, Interview by Lloyd Lockhart, The Star Weekly Magazine, April 1958.

This book has only one actual "interview" with Ernest Hemingway. He finally agreed to provide answers to questions from The Paris Review in 1958, even though he felt he was just repeating his earlier statements about his writing methods. The other three "interviews" are articles resulting from the reporters simply dropping in on Hemingway at his Finca Vigia home in Cuba without invitation. Two of those apparently didn't even merit publication at the time, but became posthumous memorials after Hemingway's death in 1961. Although Hemingway was still suffering the after-effects of his African plane crash from 1954 and resented the interruptions, he receives the reporters politely for an afternoon or a day before sending them on their way.

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Ernest Hemingway at his standup writing desk in his home, the Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), near Havana, Cuba, from the late 1950s. The original photographer and exact date is unknown, but I sourced this photo from an article about Eight Famous People Who Used a Standing Desk.

Hemingway was likely working on parts of the so-called "land, sea and air" book (of which only Islands in the Stream has appeared posthumously in 1970) or the sexually adventurous The Garden of Eden (also published posthumously in 1986). The work on the Paris memoir A Moveable Feast (posthumously published in 1964) was likely done after the move back to the States and to Ketchum, Idaho after 1960.

Overall there wasn't much new to learn here about Hemingway, but it was good to know that he did enjoy some years of peace in his later life before the final mental and physical health issues led to his 1961 suicide.

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The opening pages of the article Life in the Afternoon, reproduced in this book as The Last Interview. Image sourced from Esquire Magazine, see link below.

Trivia and Links
I was able to locate 3 of the 4 interviews/articles online, all except the one for Toronto Star Weekly.

You can read Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 here, by George Plimpton, The Paris Review, Spring, 1958.

You can read Hemingway in Cuba here, by Robert Manning, Atlantic Monthly, August 1965. Robert Manning, the executive editor of The Atlantic, looks back on his 1954 visit with the Nobel Prize–winning author.

You can read Life in the Afternoon here, by Robert Emmett Ginna, Esquire Magazine, February 1, 1962. Ernest Hemingway: some quiet conversations regarding fishing, writing, war, bars, wine, hunting, and so on. ( )