Monday, May 6, 2013

Flappers and Philopsohers

All the hype around the new Gatsby movie prompted me to read "Flappers and Philopsohers", F. S. Fitzgerald's first collection of short stories, and I love it!

People don't write like this way anymore!  Today's fiction is competent, fluent, well edited (it was funny to notice the lax punctuation of his collection) and often gritty and graphic, yet it lacks the (positive) intensity of soul and spirit that Fitzgerald had in spades...

He died at only 44, drank too much, and made no money as a writer...

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