A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by Kirk Curnutt
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By Kirk Curnutt Ask someone who came of age in the 1980s what they remember about the movie Eddie and the Cruisers and one of the following responses is likely: it spawned the great rock-radio staple 'On the Dark Side' and briefly made MTV stars of the improbably named John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band...
Posted on July 23, 2014
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By Kirk Curnutt The novel that scared a generation out of the ocean and inspired everything from Shark Week to Sharknado recently turned forty. Commemorations of Peter Benchley's Jaws have been as rare as megalodon sightings, however.
Posted on April 11, 2014
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The build-up to Baz Luhrmann's frenetic, chromatic interpretation of The Great Gatsby was a wild ride for those of us who live and breathe F. Scott Fitzgerald daily. One minute you're grading end-of-the semester papers, the next you're fielding phone calls from NPR or the Associated Press.
Posted on May 14, 2013
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By Kirk Curnutt According to literary legend, the author of The Great Gatsby sold his soul. Perpetually cash-strapped, F. Scott Fitzgerald spent much of his twenty-year career cranking out popular fiction for the Saturday Evening Post and other high-paying 'slicks.' While Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner racked up double digits in the novels column, Fitzgerald completed a paltry four and a half, with only one of them (Gatsby, of course) truly great. By contrast, he produced 160 short stories, earning a total of $241,453 off the genre ' more than $3 million in today's dollars.
Posted on April 10, 2012
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