F. Scott Fitzgerald
In “The Great Gatsby,” Fitzgerald created a bullying loudmouth eerily like Trump and then took him apart. It’s a lesson worth learning.
The novelette ‘May Day’ is Exhibit A proving that if you pass on F. Scott Fitzgerald the short-story writer, you miss out on the best of his inventions.
Agatha Christie wrote a book inspired by Le Train Bleu, a luxury locomotive that transported the famous in the Jazz Age. Later, the train lived again as a secret NYC lunch spot.
In ‘Gatz,’ Scott Shepherd has memorized, and recites, ‘The Great Gatsby.’ This revived production, without the glamor you may expect, is also about how we fall in love with books.
The life of the poet, publisher, and playboy defined the decadent decade but he has been largely forgotten during the last century.
The new book ‘A Drinkable Feast’ explores the cocktails and bars favored by Ernest Hemingway and his friends in 1920s Paris.
The famous socialite and flapper flouted convention, smoked and drank, threw her panties at men at parties, and liked to trick people into thinking she was swimming in the nude.