“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

- Ernest Hemingway

From today’s Publisher’s Lunch: Marty Beckerman’s originally self-published THE HEMING WAY: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within … Just Like Papa!, a humorous guide to living the manly man’s life, to Marc Resnick at St. Martin’s, by Myrsini Stephanides at the Carol Mann Agency (World).