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Just a quick monthly reminder that the Call for Papers for our June 26-July 2 2023 conference at Linnaeus University in Vaxjo, Sweden is out and about and ready for your submissions to fitzgeraldsociety@gmail.com! The U Penn listserv for CFPs is a great resource for all literary conferences if you're not already a subscriber!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
As we move through the 2020s, anticipating and celebrating centennial milestones in the life and career of F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is easy for us to view him as a writer defined by his historical moment. This conference aims to position Fitzgerald as a figure relevant to contemporary theoretical, so...James Rennie, who originated the role of Jay Gatsby in Owen Davis's 1926 Broadway adaptation of Fitzgerald's most famous novel. When the production traveled to Chicago, the newspapers referred to the mysterious millionaire who believes the past can be repeated as the "bootlegging boob" ... which seems a little off-target!
We're sorry to read about the passing of Aaron Latham. He came out of the gate with a popular book on Fitzgerald's Hollywood years (Crazy Sundays) but quickly left the literary world for New Journalism, going on to write boffo articles for Esquire on the making of Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife (one of our favorite articles ever) and, of course, the article that inspired Urban Cowboy. Not many people's careers go from FSF to "Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places"! Latham fought a long, hard battle against Parkinson's disease.
Aaron Latham, ‘Urban Cowboy’ screenwriter, dies at 78
www.washingtonpost.com
His dispatch for Esquire magazine from a Texas honky-tonk saloon inspired the 1980 movie starring John Travolta.#BOTD Zelda Sayre, 4th daughter of Minnie Machen Sayre and Anthony D Sayre, in Montgomery, ALA. Happy 122nd birthday Zelda! ❤️⭐️🩰🧑🎨✍️
Great beauty! Mad as a hatter!
Very complex woman. Her artistic ability (paintings) may not be that well-known but she had incredible talent. I was introduced to her works when I visited the Fitzgerald home in Montgomery, Alabama.
Judy Crump
We've updated our website with more images of next summer's conference site, including a video tour of Växjö!
First question we've been asked: how to pronounce Växjö? [ˈvɛ̂kːɧœ]
(Happy to help!)
fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/conferences/8116-2/
Växjö Sweden 2023 – F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society will (finally!) hold its 16th international conference in Växjö in 2023 with Niklas Salmose serving as conference director and Helen M. Turner as program director.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!):
