Crappy Hemingway story discovered

A lost Hemingway story about bullfighting has been discovered in the papers of the late American screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart. Hemingway wrote the story when he was just 25, before he had fully mastered the craft. The five-page story has been appraised as “not great literature” by Hemingway expert J. Gerald Kennedy. Kudos to the Hemingway family, who have refused permission for the story to be published. If you want to buy (and read) it, you’ll need a fat wallet: the carbon-copy manuscript and accompanying handwritten letter signed by Hemingway will be auctioned in December by Christie's, which expects the bidding to top $22,500 Cdn. Fortunately, most of my early, crappy work is trapped on the hard-drive of a non-Y2K-compliant computer, where it poses no threat to humanity.

• BBC item on the discovered Hemingway story
• Guardian story on the discovered Hemingway