Budgeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yesterday Scribner Magazine republished this gem of a budget from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. First published in The Saturday Evening Post on April 5, 1924, and this week it joins a… Read more »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s reading list
Fresh Air recently profiled the years that F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald spent in the mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald turned 40 while staying in Asheville at… Read more »
Ten Nights On Long Island: The Great Gatsby’s early reviews
In its first year, The Great Gatsby sold a disappointing 21,000 copies, less than half of the first year sales for This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Dammed.… Read more »
The reemergence of Zelda Fitzgerald
93 years ago last week, the newlywed Fitzgeralds were thrown out of The Commodore Hotel, having already been booted from The Biltmore. The charge? Raucous drunkenness on the occasion of… Read more »
New Fitzgerald poems come to light
Tomorrow, the autograph and memorabilia dealer Nate D. Sanders will be selling at auction a most unusual piece of F. Scott Fitzgerald-iana: two handwritten poems, composed for the first and… Read more »