- F. Scott Conjugates Cocktail as a Verb Love this. Sent from literary man and fellow Attemptor Chris Russell. Origin unknown, but check out all of his derivations of the verb. Best one has to be: “Cocktailest thou?” For the original advertisement of The Great Gatsby found in an old Princetonian magazine, look no further.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre were married on this day in 1920 “You and I have been happy; we haven’t been happy just once, we’ve been happy a thousand times.” Love that F. Scott quote. Cheers to our favorite literary couple who were married today 93 years ago. Open Culture has some really cool film footage and old photos of these two literary lovebirds from when they […]
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on the World Series “Who is he anyhow, an actor?” “No.” “A dentist?” “…No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: “He’s the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919.” “Fixed the World Series?” I repeated. The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I […]
- Happy Birthday F. Scott Fitzgerald! Happy birthday to Mr. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, who today would be celebrating his one hundred sixteenth birthday. Next time you’re in Washington, DC, pack up a few martinis and head to Rockville, MD, where you can find the burial site of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald who are laid to rest at the Old St. Mary’s Catholic […]
- Original Ad for The Great Gatsby Found in Princetonian from 1925 Thx to editor Jason Feifer who sent us this pic of an old ad for Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY from an old copy of the Princetonian that Jason was leafing through. Would love to know how / why / where Jason ended up flipping through an old copy of the Princetonian, so if you’re out […]
- Character Map of The Great Gatsby (Contains Spoilers) How cool is this! Here’s the designer’s home page. Very cool stuff in there.
- Pic of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hand-Engraved Flask Fitzgerald’s Silver Hip Flask Reads : “To 1st Lt F Scott Fitzgerald. 65th Infantry Camp Sheridan. Forget-me-not. Zelda. 9-13-18 Montgomery, Ala”. While stationed at Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama Fitzgerald met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. (From the Bazmark FB page.)
- Thoughts on the Great Gatsby trailer Well, it’s here. The first glimpse of Baz Luhrman’s film adaptation of a novel that, upon publication, sold very few copies and was essentially out of print at the time of the author’s death. Initial reaction: it looks bad ass. Huge extravagant automobiles swerving under the subway in Queens, martinis and champagne flowing, spilling everywhere, […]
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great American Novel Ernest Hemingway once claimed “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn’” (The Green Hills of Africa, 1934). The statement by Hemingway was made nine years after his friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published his third novel The Great Gatsby. At the time of the publication, Fitzgerald was a […]
