September 4th, This Day in Literary History: F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

TODAY (Sep 4): In 1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives the manuscript of This Side of Paradise to his friend Shane Leslie to deliver to Maxwell Perkins, editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's old digs may be a tad shabby, but sleeping in them will probably help with your novel (?) https://t.co/6zVCXRtOfs

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"The upside to the cult of Fitzgerald dying out is that new readers, if he’s to have any, might be able to see his work with fresh eyes." Andrew Martin and Benjamin Nugent discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald (on his birthday).
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