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We have some VERY EXCITING news to announce! The 17th International Fitzgerald Society Conference will be held next June 22-28, 2025 at the New School in NYC!
Below is the call for papers. Obviously we have a very important centennial to celebrate next year, but we also want to pay attention to themes and issues relevant to the Fitzgeralds in the Big Apple (everything from B&D to "The Rich Boy" to "My Lost City" to "The Lost Decade" and tons we're forgetting...)
We will announce much more detail on lodging and "extracurricular" events in the next few months, but for now we want to invite scholars and fans to begin working on proposals. Abstracts will be due November 15, 2024... which is appropriate since that's James L.W. West III's birthday.
We're excited too to announce our organizing committee, which includes site director Anne Margaret Daniel and program director Maggie Gordon Froehlich, with the assistance of Ross Tangedal (our homage to how Matthew J Bruccoli always bylined his editorial projects). We also have Walter Raubicheck, Brooke di Spirito, and Nilla Park working on a Long Island excursion. We are also looking at both pre- and post-conference excursions for attendees who might want an even wider circumference of Fitzgerald adventures.
Please send your abstracts to the Fitzgerald Society gmail at fitzgeraldsociety@gmail.com. You can send any questions to kcurnutt@troy.edu.
Sounds great perfect location to celebrate him
We have been asking this ourselves...
Better than dueling Jude the Obscure musicals though
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Just in time for the St Raphael colloquy that starts this week, here is registration information! You have two full days! Plenty of time to make your way to the Riviera!
COLLOQUE SCOTT ET ZELDA FITZGERALD
www.ville-saintraphael.fr
La Ville de Saint-Raphaël et l’Université de Toulon s’associent pour célébrer le centième anniversaire de l’écriture de Gatsby le Magnifique à Valescure
Greetings from Asheville! One of the central Fitzgerald-centric cities of course. If you have never read the only recently published "I'd Die for You (The Legend of Lake Lure)," featured in Anne Margaret Daniel's collection of that same name, you should! It takes place at Chimney Rock, a 2280 ft high cliff that you can climb up thanks to 500+ steps. We don't want to give away the story, so we'll just say we did not reenact it bc it's a long way down. But if you go to Asheville, seeing the view of Lake Lure from the top is a must to picture the story's action. Also, you can visit the waterfall where parts of Last of the Mohicans was filmed c. 1992. No, we did not see Daniel Day Lewis running around in a loin cloth, but still worth tearing up your calves.
While in Asheville, we encourage you to stay at the newly opened Zelda Dearest Hotel right in downtown Asheville on Lexington Avenue. A beautiful boutique hotel, with buildings named after the Sayre sisters.
Also, it's worth a short drive out to the Grove Park Inn for a dinner or at least a drink! Lots to do Fitzgerald-wise, especially regarding some of the lesser-known stories like "I'd Die for You."
I was just there a few weeks ago and saw Zelda’s memorial stone at the former Highlands Hospital site. 😢
You should also visit the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, his boyhood home. Zelda stayed there in 1943 and the is a brick in the sidewalk noting that.
Thank you for the reminder of Asheville as a Fitzgerald place. Living in Minnesota, I forget the other places Scott & Zelda lived and loved!
thanks. love it. greetings from frederick co maryland. scott and zelda were laid to rest in the next county over... montgomery.
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!):
