Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, Part 1

Examining the CIA’s influence on literary magazines during the Cold War, Whitney covers Plimpton’s challenges to interviewing the reluctant Hemingway for The Paris Review, charming the aging author through their shared interest in boxing and fishing and pandering to his ego. Speculates on if Hemingway knew he was being used as a propaganda tool to fight communism