Joel Graham
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
„And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
For Father's Day in 1958, The Times printed letters from famous men to sons or daughters. Letter writers included Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and F. Scott Fitzgerald. https://t.co/uTBrfa5H5A
“Do you always watch for the longest day of the year then miss it? I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.” #TheGreatGatsby#SummerSolstice https://t.co/wXfuaeeaOZ
On this day in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published. It sold poorly at first and the author died believing that he was a failure, but it had a revival in the 1940s and today it is considered a literary classic.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "I'd Die For You and Other Lost Stories." The paperback version of his last unpublished stories, out from @ScribnerBooks this coming April. The new cover is lovely; the beautiful first editions are still available.
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, 1936
Of the five short stories that drew the most readers to our site this year, four were written by women—Kristen Roupenian, Samantha Hunt, Zadie Smith, and Curtis Sittenfeld—and one was by a man, F. Scott Fitzgerald. https://t.co/JWhKy5D77w