F. Scott Fitzgerald
August 10, 2009
- James Gaitis © 2009 It is has been years now since I took the advice of the renowned editor Maxwell Perkins and immersed myself for the first time in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Perkins, of course, was long dead by the time I took to reading Tolstoy’s novel of Russia’s pivotal role in defeating Napoleon and of the trauma and tragedy war brings to families great and small. So Perkins’ ...
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July 20, 2009
- Okay. So I get asked this question about every other day, and it seems like I should update this page because my response before the movie came out is very different from how I feel after the movie came out. For a full history of Benjamin Button and Max Tivoli, you can look below. The executive summary is that the Fitzgerald story has nothing to do with the movie, the movie has nothing to do with ...
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July 13, 2009
- One question I get asked often in interviews is: What's your favorite novel? I always divide my answer in two:Favorite Novel by a Live Author: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia MarquezFavorite Novel by a Dead Author: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott FitzgeraldI first read The Great Gatsby 35 years ago and have re-read it countless times since. Most recently I'm re-reading it for the July ...
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May 15, 2009
- Ooh, after the week I've had with babysitter woes, I have really been looking forward to my Friday post where I get to let my hair down, sit back, and ponder the inane, quirky habits of that ecelectic species, writer.This week's spotlight gelled for me in a dream last night. I haven't had the best luck with working things out in the subconscious before, but man, last night, the stars must have ...
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January 18, 2009
- At a party the other night, I overheard a female book editor talk to a male author. Both are my friends. He told her that he wrote fiction. "What category?" she asked. "Mainstream books," he said. "Chick lit?" she said, astonished."No," he said, "Just good stories, general reading.""Literary, you mean?" she ...
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November 17, 2008
- A few months back, I'm working furiously on the new website for the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, typing in endless news about their participation in the "Big Read," featuring The Great Gatsby. And then it happens.After about the eightieth time I type "Gatsby" it occurs to me that I haven't read this classic myself since... yikes... high school? Seems like a damned good ...
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