Checking in at Hotel Florida…

This was a kick—writing for the New York Times about 3 couples, the bright young photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, the writers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, and the devoted press officers Arturo Barea and Ilsa Kulcsar, all colliding during the Spanish Civil War at Madrid’s Hotel Florida, as described in Amanda Vaill’s book….“Hotel Florida,”

Check out the book review here…