I’ve wanted for years to read Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. I finally got around to it Thursday and am halfway through. As expected, it’s brilliant. If there’s a writer I’d recommend to anyone hoping to launch a career in fiction, Hemingway is my choice. He said somewhere that the biggest problem most would-be fiction writers have is that they overwrite. (Or maybe that was Sheila Williams, Asimov’s editor.) Whoever actually made the comment was right. I don’t know anyone wh