F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Time to Write (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
I just finished reading “The Disenchanted,” a fictionalized version of the time a young Budd Schulberg (the author of the book) spent with F. Scott Fitzgerald toward the end of the latter’s life. Fitzgerald, broke and suffering from alcoholism, took...
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J.R.R. Tolkien, O'Donnell Lecture on English and Welsh : Most English-speaking people will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful,' especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky , and far more beautiful than beautiful . Well, then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is...
Notes From the Muck (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. --F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his short story The Rich Boy . According to Buzzfeed: " This is an actual receipt from Nello's in New York City. The customer was Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who had no problem dropping 47k on food and drinks for himself and five other people." Personally, I couldn't afford the "large...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. To which Ernest Hemingway replied, ``yes. They have more money.'' Could they one day end up having more fingers? Toes? Brains? The economist Robert Frank wonders about that , picking up on Robert Saffo's suggestion that advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and personal genetics will be so expensive that they will lead, as Saffo put it, to the rich person ``evolving...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
William Quirk, in American Scholar , takes a look at F. Scott Fitzgerald's tax returns to reveal what it says about the famed author's life and the times he lived in. From the piece... What can be learned from Fitzgerald’s tax returns? To start with, his popular reputation as a careless spendthrift is untrue. Fitzgerald was always trying to follow conservative financial principles. Until 1937...
paperpools (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
For example, here’s one fun fact: The engine of Fitzgerald’s income (at least until he went to Hollywood) was not his novels but his short stories. He considered them his “day job,” a thing to be endured because writing them would allow him the financial wherewithal to write the novels he preferred to do. And how much did he make for these short stories? Well, in 1920, he sold...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
From the Queens Tribune : State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) and Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) were instrumental in getting the funding appropriated to the LLC. Stavisky alluded to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which alludes to the "small foul" Flushing River and the adjacent "valley of ashes" - or Willets Point to the rest of us. "We have the opportunity...
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Keywords: Book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Unabridged AudioBook Get other Fiction Classics on AudioBook – click here The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald – AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4.5 hours 4 CDs The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10 1925 the story is set in New York City and Long Island during...
Canadian Capitalist (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Add one more star player to the long list of athletes who earned millions but ended up broke. The Boston Globe reported the sad story of Antoine Walker, a Celtics star, who squandered an estimated $110 million in earnings but is now facing fraud charges for writing bad cheques. Larry MacDonald discovers that F. Scott Fitzgerald, [...] This and That: Spendthrift celebrities and more… is brought...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I was 17 years old, faintly spotty and in love with Rupert Brooke. I had just been removed from my Home Counties boarding school, slap in the middle of the A-level course. My parents had become disillusioned with the academic goals of the institution after discovering that the entire school had been awarded a day's picnic to celebrate one girl's successful application to university. Instead, I was...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
There have been an increasing number of questions raised about both the length of copyright and the fact that it passes on to heirs after the original creator passes on. The original purpose of copyright had nothing to do with creating a welfare system for the children of content creators, no matter how much some content creators would like it to work that way. Economist Greg Mankiw points out a "factoid"...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
In my case, they say Dude needs to get more organized. Here is more than you ever wanted to know about F. Scott Fitzgerald via American Scholar’s version of the IRS rubber glove treatment. What can be learned from Fitzgerald’s tax returns? To start with, his popular reputation as a careless spendthrift is untrue. Fitzgerald was [...]
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