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The Book of Doctorow: A Writer Sympathizes
Compiled as testament to the “belief in the story as a system of knowledge,” E.L. Doctorow’s book of essays provides a superb overview both of American literature and of the themes the author has taken...
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Yappers and Philosophers
ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN By Keith Gessen Viking, 242 pages, $24.95 The hazy golden specter of F. Scott Fitzgerald looms over all first novels by young white male Ivy League graduates, but it...
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Tender Is The Knightley?
The Hollywood Reporter reports that The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes has signed on to direct The Beautiful and The Damned, which would tackle the shiny, bright, and often thorny relationship...
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F. Scott Off-Broadway
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are the subjects of a new biographical musical, This Side of Paradise, opening Off-Broadway tomorrow. The New Yorker's Book Bench blog has its reservations. They seem...
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What F. Scott Fitzgerald Wants Us To Know
On Saturday night at KGB bar, there was a séance for F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Have you ever conducted a séance before?” asked Goodman Carter, web editor for the literary magazine The Fiction Circus, to an...
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The Great Gatsby in 3D: An Idea So Abysmally Awful It Just Might Work?
Those familiar with director Baz Luhrmann's fixation with excess had every reason to look forward to his upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Sure, the subtle analysis of class warfare, sexuality,...
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The Wrecking Ball Comes for Daisy Buchanan
On the farthest edge of Sands Point, L.I., the house known as Lands End stood wind-battered and decrepit, its face scarred from years of relentless salty gusts ripping off the top of Long Island Sound....
View ArticleHemingway on HBO, Fitzgerald on Film: Is There a Lost Generation Boom?
Last summer's Midnight in Paris took as its subject a young writer given the tremendous opportunity to meet his literary idols--the writers of the expatriate clique, including Gertrude Stein, F. Scott...
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Meet The Gatsbabies! Preening Prepsters Lure Ladies, Lucre and Limelight in...
The girls, so many girls, dressed in pastel-colored wraps that bared shoulders and the swells of their cleavage, clacked their Louboutin heels up a SoHo staircase one muggy May evening. At the landing,...
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Gatsby Takes Manhattan: Leo, Jay-Z and Baz Turn NYC into a Two-Week Pop-Up
Early last Thursday morning, Leonardo DiCaprio was sitting in the basement of The Darby as a long line of girls came toward him carrying bursting bottles of champagne affixed with firecrackers. Jay-Z...
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