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Just a quick reminder that Friday, Sept 24 is F Scott Fitzgerald's 125th birthday! To celebrate, why not tune into the Fitzgerald Literary Conference's virtual screening of The Great Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story, Robert Steven Williams's wonderful exploration of Scott and Zelda's connection to Westport, featuring the always ebullient Richard "Deej" Webb and our very own Walter Raubicheck. It's a blast. Here's the link: mcpl.libnet.info/event/5493570
Happy 100th birthday to The Beautiful and Damned, which began its serial run in Metropolitan Magazine's September 1921 issue. The $7000 Fitzgerald earned in 1921 is the equivalent of $100k today. Of course, that means the 25 cents it cost to purchase this issue a century ago would run you $38 today. You can waste your life scouring the Internetz for the seven issues in which the novel appeared... issues from 1919 on, when Metropolitan ran into severe money troubles and cut back on print runs, are extremely rare to come across on Ebay and other sites. Hopefully one day we can get a complete run of the issues scanned and post for free for scholars.
You don't want to miss any of the Fitzgerald Literary Conference---especially John Edgar Wideman!
All right lit lovers... now that Fitzgerald Summer School is over it's time to talk New Orleans Sept 9-11. Who doesn't want to come hang out at the Hotel Monteleone, attend great panels and roundtables, and eat your age in chow? Grad students, if you haven't been to an ALA yet, the fall one is especially a great opportunity to workshop ideas.
americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-symposia/ala-symposium-rebirth-renewal-rena...
ALA Symposium “Rebirth Renewal Renaissance” – The American Literature Association
americanliteratureassociation.org
With the gradual but hopeful emergence from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, the American Literature Association fall 2021 symposium seeks papers on the theme of renewal, rejuvenation, or regeneration in all genres and periods of American literary history. Rebirth is the diastole to the systole of the...
If you missed today's webinar on academic writing and publishing, it's now available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmW6q_wyBs
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!):
