Fitzgerald Bought Into Ethnic Stereotypes
F. Scott Fitzgerald may have written beautifully about the Jazz Age, but he had some problems with people of different races and backgrounds, and wrote some rather awful things about black…
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The Loneliest Art
Does screenwriting qualify as “real” writing? Over at the New Yorker, Richard Brody wonders what F. Scott Fitzgerald’s failed shot at Hollywood reveals about film as an industry and as…
Point of View and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flexible First Person
We spend an enormous amount of our lives ... thinking about other people, their motives, their desires and their opinions.