Showing posts with label Gatsby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gatsby. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Favorite Books Bookshelf, July 31, 2018

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I recently was forced to move masses of books off and then later back onto their shelves for a carpet cleaning project, and it occurred to...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Lost in an Elaborate Dream with Real-Life Consequences: An Interview with Keith Lee Morris

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I read Keith Lee Morris’s new novel Travelers Rest , under perfect conditions: during the recent Snowzilla snowstorm that shut down the DC...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

"West of Sunset": Fitzgerald in Hollywood

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How did I not know about this book until now, West of Sunset , by Stewart O’Nan, that imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s days in Hollywood?  Li...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Fitzgerald's Trimalchio Now Available as an Ebook

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In what must be the worst marketing email ever written, I have discovered that Simon & Schuster has made Trimalchio , F. Scott Fitzgera...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Catching Waaaay Up: Converse Low-Residency MFA and Asheville, NC

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Hmmm…I can barely remember the beginning of this most recent road trip to the Converse MFA program in South Carolina (and I’m already thin...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Thomas Wolfe's Beautiful Deathbed Letter to Maxwell Perkins

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This has to be one of the most moving letters ever written, the letter Thomas Wolfe wrote to Maxwell Perkins on his deathbed, by hand, agai...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

"Seeing, Hearing, and Reading": Maxwell Perkins on How to Write

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Here’s some excellent writing advice via Maxwell Perkins, gleaned from Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins, selected and e...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Rejection Letters by Maxwell Perkins

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What’s it like to be rejected by legendary Scribners editor Maxwell Perkins?   Here are two examples, both pretty cutting under that veneer...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Maxwell Perkins: Great Guy, But He Didn't Think Much of Women and Huck Finn

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Okay, my incendiary headline has done the trick and gotten your attention! As I mentioned, I’ve moved on from Robert Lowell and legenda...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Blog Vacation

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Congratulations to Austin, who will be channeling F. Scott Fitzgerald in her Tigers Princeton T-shirt!   Thanks to everyone for entering. ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Princeton T-Shirt Up for Grabs!

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Don't forget to enter to win a Princeton T-shirt, in honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday! Details:  http://www.workinprogressi...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Link Corral: Be a More Productive Writer, Job Opportunity in SC, and F. Scott!

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Weren’t we just talking about F. Scott Fitzgerald?   And yet there’s always more! --Here’s a link to a Simon and Schuster, where you ca...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Happy Birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald!

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This day has been marked on your calendar, right?   In honor of my guy, I’m going to celebrate his birthday by giving away a Princeton T-sh...