Carlos Santos – författare

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? Almost Hemingway relates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast, best-selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Hemingway, Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected Hemingway’s in ways that compelled writers for publications as divergent as the Guardian and Field & Stream to compare them. Unlike Hemingway, however, Farson has been forgotten.This high-flying and literate biography recovers Farson’s life in its multifaceted details, from his time as an arms dealer to Czarist Russia during World War I, to his firsthand reporting on Hitler and Mussolini, to his assignment in India, where he broke the news of Gandhi’s arrest by the British, to his excursion to Kenya a few years before the Mau Mau Uprising. Farson also found the time to publish an autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, which made him an international publishing sensation in 1936, as well as Going Fishing, one of the most enduring of all outdoors books.F. Scott Fitzgerald, a fellow member of the Lost Generation whose art competed with a public image grander than reality, once confessed that while he had to rely on his imagination, Farson could simply draw from his own event-filled life. Almost Hemingway is the definitive window on that remarkable story.

The 14th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (mis4TEL’24) technical program includes 29 contributions (17 full papers and 12 short papers).

Education is the cornerstone of any society; it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. mis4TEL’25 promotes the interaction among the scientific community to discuss applications. Technology Enhanced Learning solutions targeting not only cognitive and social processes but also motivational, personality, or emotional factors. In addition, current trends concerning the use of artificial intelligence can help and augment learning opportunities for learners and educators. The 15th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (mis4TEL’25) technical program includes 23 contributions (13 full papers and 10 short papers). mis4TEL’25 is hosted by the SMAC Team of the CRIStAL Lab of the University of Lille (France). The authors would like to thank all the contributing authors, the members of the program committee.