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One month out from our June 22-28 2025 conference and swag has started to arrive! Here is the official conference poster, available as a fund raiser for the Society for only $10! Although attendees get first dibs on the posters, we'll be offering them to the general public as well!
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I’ll be there and will be purchasing this for sure
It's beautiful!
I need one. I taught Gatsby for decades and wrote the script for this. youtu.be/bQziPUFpjmc?si=8t2gNc_adeXNbx_1
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Society kicks off this year's programming on Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 4 pm EST with a Zoom webinar on Fitzgerald Biography. The event will focus on the recently released F SCOTT FITZGERALD: A COMPOSITE BIOGRAPHY with editors Niklas Salmose and David Rennie. Join Niklas and David as they discuss the opportunities and challenges of corralling nearly two dozen different contributors writing about two-year sections of FSF's life!
You can join the webinar here:
us02web.zoom.us/j/85105591158?pwd=fFryaaOk7ndUmHezAa081QrgHmQitn.1
It'll be great!
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What other programming is planned for the year?
Great program!! Thank you to all the panelists!!
Hope there will be recording 😀😀
Another great centennial piece on The Great Gatsby! (Recommended by Society VP William Blazek so don't shoot the messenger)
The Great Gatsby at 100: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America
theconversation.com
Fitzgerald’s uncannily prescient masterpiece of wealth and ambition is an enduring classic. But though it’s sold over 250 million copies, it wasn’t an instant success.5 CommentsComment on Facebook
Good article from an Australian outlet
This one is shorter .... suchfriends.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/such-friends-100-years-ago-april-10-1925-scribners-153-157-f...
We are sad to report that Julian McPhillips, the co-founder with his wife Leslie of the Fitzgerald Museum in the home where Scott and Zelda lived in 1931-32 passed away unexpectedly yesterday---on the very day, in fact, that the Museum was hosting its 31st annual gala. For thirty-eight years the McPhillips cultivated the museum, often against the resistance of the home's neighborhood, and helped build it into one of the most famous author homes in the country. Godspeed, Julian!
Long-time Montgomery attorney and Fitzgerald Museum founder Julian…
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Montgomery attorney Julian McPhillips died April 12. He represented citizens suing state and local government. He founded the Fitzgerald Museum. | Alabama…6 CommentsComment on Facebook
Thanks for info. That was a great celebration there in 2013 during the conference.
Very sad news indeed. He was a delightful host
I visited that house/museum a few years ago. Walking in the footsteps of Scott and Zelda was an incredible experience.
Just because April 10 has passed does not mean the Gatsby centennial celebrations are over! If you're in the Kansas City area next weekend, please plan on joining Society member Park Bucker---a protegee of Matthew J. Bruccoli---at the Warwick Theatre,
3927 Main Street, KCMO (the MO side) for his take on the novel! Starting at 1:30 pm there will be a live read-through of the entire book featuring some of KC’s finest actors & performers delivering up a scrumptious tale of 1920’s decadence, wild parties, love, and betrayal! (Plus food, hooch!)
warwickkc.org
Join us for a live read-through of the entire book, an all-day event with some of KC’s finest actors & performers delivering up a scrumptious tale of 1920’s decadence, wild parties, love, and betr...2 CommentsComment on Facebook
and this follow up on the CBS sunday morning coverage: travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/gatsby-great-neck-fitzgerald-and-fitzpatrick-on-cbs-sunday-morning/
Honored the date on my blog! travsd.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/the-great-and-not-so-great-gatsbys/
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!):
