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We love the genre of literary conference fan fiction! (It's a real thing). At the link below, one of our Society members, Dominic Donato, was inspired by last summer's journey to Växjö, Sweden. Dominic is also headed to this July's Hemingway The Hemingway Society conference in San Sebastian and Bilboa, but we're not sure Fitzgerald fans will think it possible to top this recently published story!
#OTD 3 May 1924, F Scott, Zelda and Scottie Fitzgerald boarded the SS Minnewaska at Pier 58 on the North River, New York, headed for Cherbourg in France, Fitzgerald taking with him some draft chapters of what would become The Great Gatsby
Such a tragic life,poor soul.
Elisabeth, Marie-Agnès and I will be in St Raphaël 25-28 June for a series of lectures to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the writing of Gatsby. 😊
(sometimes called the Hudson River ... called the Noort/North River by the Dutch, their descendants, other sticklers, and always for the piers)
Wish I could be on it! 💕
Members and friends of the Society may be interested in a free online talk (“Jay Gatsby, The Thrill Is Gone: The Great Gatsby, a Blues Narrative of Racial Passing”) May 7, 6:30 p.m. by Carlyle Van Thompson Professor of American and African American Literature at Medgar Evans College of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination. Use this meeting link for the talk: us02web.zoom.us/j/83660916774?pwd=MWZlS2NFSktMRmZQeExPVjViSDhlQT09 (2004) or go to our web page www.fscottfestival.org/copy-of-may-2023-events
Coming to Europeeeeee!!!! 👏👏😎😎
100 years ago Motor Magazine published its third installment of Fitzgerald's "The Cruise of the Rolling Junk," one of the first literary road trip narratives tracing Scott and Zelda's misadventures from Westport CT to Montgomery AL in the summer of 1920. (A fictionalized account it should be noted). For many years "Cruise" was a hard text to track down; even after Matthew J. Bruccoli's company reprinted it in 1976, that limited edition was rare and expensive. 20 years ago a set of the three Feb-April issues went for more than $6000.
Since 2012 the story has been available for cheap in a paperback UK edition, but you can nab a decent used copy of the Bruccoli edition for $60 or so. Of course, we only read it in the official Cambridge Edition version, collected in Jim West's LAST KISS.
Someday it will turn up online scanned!
Thank you for this! I managed to get a secondhand copy on Amazon for a modest outlay.
It had a modest impact at least!
Those original covers are fantastic! 🤩 “Rolling Junk” has a special place in my heart, as it brought me to Sweden for last year’s conference.
Wow, that’s expensive!
I love it.
Fitzgerald hated cars for their trouble, noise, expense and failure to deliver despite continual high maintenance. An English Lit prof told me that "Jordan Baker" in "The Great Gatsby," was a composite of two horrible cars that Scott and Zelda bought and which offered great glamourous promise but failed them. One was made by the Jordan Motor Car Company. The other by the Baker Motor Vehicle Company.
Would you recommend this 2011 publication?
e-pub for five bucks www.ipgbook.com/the-cruise-of-the-rolling-junk-products-9781843916291.php
99 years old today! 🍸🎂🥳💚
Loved Gatsby and Tender is the Night! The Beautiful and Damned is more of a "slog" but I'm pushing through it. It has beautiful "prose" but I think Fitzgerald fell in love with his prose to the detriment of the STORY ... thus far..
The great American Odessey.
One of the world's most famous book covers in literary history
The best novel ever!! 🙃
I love it.
Sad how he died,drank too much.
The Great American Novel!
Richard Selden
Andrew C Davies
One more to go...🥳🥳🥳
Fifty years ago this month, all editorials could talk about (besides a little thing called Watergate) was the latest movie adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY starring---oh heck, we all know who was in it. The real question: good or bad? The movie was a moneymaker (not a blockbuster, but a solid performer) but it was also a merchandizing bonanza. "We are going to Gatsbysize America," producer David Merrick told one reporter.
(Click on jpeg for whole article)
I wish I could somehow unsee-it, just to see it for the first time again! My favourite book in the world, on screen! 🙃🙂💕
Recently I was looking at the period in which Stephen King headed off to write The Shining in Boulder, Colorado (1974-75) and was intrigued to learn that The Great Gatsby was being shown on the same day as The Exorcist in the local cinema. The films had been released within weeks of each other. Stanley Kubrick seemed to have both movies in mind when he directed his own version of The Shining five years later (which was quite different from the novel).
some of the best words written on scott's masterpiece. a then as now approach used by prof Heather Cox Richardson in her DAILY assessment of the news and always comparing it to what is now happening. my whole life, been bummed out by hippies turning around and selling their hard bought gains for "success". donovan saw it coming. we were warned. but it halted my life for a decade. scott and zelda buried in rockville, maryland.
Lois Chiles should have played Daisy ("her voice is full of money”).
Greetings from our president, Jackson Bryer!
Board member Erin Templeton during the summer of 2019 in the room in which Scott and Zelda stayed in 1926 in Salies-de-Béarn, France:
Two of our members from Brasil, Marcela Lanius and Roberta Fabbri Viscardi, also in Salies-de-Béarn in 2019 (the last time we could all be together!):
