If you’re in Boulder, Best Chance Media publisher Alan O’Hashi will read from his latest book, “What the Morning Brings,” on Thursday, December 3rd, at the Boulder Bookstore at 6:30 p.m. You can purchase the book ahead of time.
What happens when Ernest Hemingway’s literary world collides with Boulder, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1968?
He’ll explore Hemingway and the American West at the Boulder Book Store (1107 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302) during a presentation about my adaptation of “The Sun Also Rises.”
His presentation traces the Nobel Prize-winning author’s connections from Wyoming and Montana to Idaho, where Hemingway spent his final years. The presentation explores how the West’s landscape, culture, and contradictions intersected with Hemingway’s life and literary imagination.
Alan’s research uncovered an unexpected connection to Colorado and another famously unconventional American writer.
After Hemingway died in 1961, journalist Hunter S. Thompson traveled from Colorado to Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemingway had lived. Thompson absconded with an elk rack from the Hemingway property. Years later, Thompson’s widow, Anita, returned the memento to the Hemingway estate.
It’s an unusual footnote in the story of two writers whose lives and legends became intertwined with the American West.
O’Hashi’s adaptation reimagines Hemingway’s landmark novel “The Sun Also Rises,” in the public domain since 2022. I explore how the lost generation’s questions might resonate with a new generation confronting a fractured America.
He transplants Hemingway’s post-World War I themes of disillusionment from Paris bars to the Vietnam War era and the search for meaning in Boulder, Colorado, during 1968, a year of political upheaval, antiwar protests, and cultural change.
The story reimagines the bullrings of Pamplona, Spain, by moving from University Hill in Boulder to a bull-riding chute at the Wild Prairie Stampede in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The December 3rd event combines literary history, Western lore, and a look at the creative choices behind What the Morning Brings. Readers will hear how Hemingway’s legacy inspired me to bring a classic literary sensibility to distinctly Colorado and Wyoming settings.
EVENT DETAILS
What: Author Presentation and Discussion – What the Morning Brings, “Hemingway in the American West”
Who: Alan O’Hashi, author and documentary filmmaker
When: Thursday, December 3, 2026
Where: Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Admission: $5, which applies to the book’s purchase price.
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Published by Alan O’Hashi, Whole Brain Thinker
I’ve been involved with community journalism since 1968 when I wrote for my junior school paper, the "Tumbleweed," through high school and college and then wrote for the "Wyoming State Journal." I put aside my newspaper pen and began Boulder Community Media in 2005. There wasn’t much community journalism opportunity, so I resurrected my writing career as a screenwriter. My first short screenplay, “Stardust”, won an award in the 2005 Denver Screenwriting Center contest. I've made a number of movies over the years. Filmmaking is time-consuming, labor and equipment intensive. I recently changed my workflow to first write a book and make a movie based on that content.
- Electric Vehicle Anxiety and Advice - This is a memoir travelogue of three trips covering 2,600 EV miles around Wyoming (2022)
- Beyond Heart Mountain - Winter Goose Publishers released my memoir in February (2022)
- The Zen of Writing with Confidence and Imperfection - This is a book recounting how luck planed into my signing a book deal after a 15-minute pitch meeting. (2020)
- True Stories of an Aging Baby Boomer - War stories about living in a cohousing and lessons others can learn when starting their communities (2021)
- Beyond Sand Creek - About Arapaho tribal efforts to repatriate land in Colorado (PBS - TBA)
- Beyond Heart Mountain - Based on my memoir about my childhood in Cheyenne facing overt and subtle racism toward the Japanese following World War II (PBS - 2021)
- New Deal Artist Public Art Legacy - About artists who created work in Wyoming during the Great Depression (PBS - 2018)
- Mahjong and the West - SAG indie feature which premiered at the semi-important Woodstock Film Festival (2014)
Over the years, I’ve produced directed, filmed and/or edited several short movies, “Running Horses” (Runner Up – Wyoming Short Film Contest), “On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne” (Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival, Top 10 Wyoming Short Film Contest), “Gold Digger” (Boulder Asian Film Festival), “Adobo” (Boulder International Film Festival), “A Little Bit of Discipline” (Rosebud Film Series), and two feature length documentaries “Your Neighbor’s Child” (Wyoming PBS and Rocky Mountain PBS), and “Serotonin Rising” (American Film Market, Vail Film Festival). He also directed and produced the award winning stage play “Webster Street Blues” by my childhood friend Warren Kubota.
Boulder Community Media is a non-profit production company dedicated to democratzing media in all their forms - large and small screens, printed page and stage by providing sustainable and community-based content.
I mostly work with community-based media producers, organizations, and socially-responsible businesses to develop their content via – the written word, electronic and new media, the visual and performing arts in a culturally competent manner – I’m what’s commonly called a niche TV and movie producer.
Along with all this is plying my forte’ – fund development through grant writing, sponsorship nurturing and event planning.
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