F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The sound bite and the fury

    Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
    By Louis Bayard April 19, 2003

  • Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Hear Parker Posey read an early Fitzgerald story, "Benediction." Subscribe to Salon Premium and get the complete nine-hour audiobook for free.
    April 25, 2001

  • A preppy pantheon

    The film director and author of "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" picks five essential books for the Bass Weejuns set.
    By Whit Stillman December 22, 2000

  • Was Gatsby black?

    By Elizabeth Manus
    By August 11, 2000

  • Was Gatsby black?

    A professor says that only an African-American scholar could spot Fitzgerald's secret meaning.
    By Elizabeth Manus August 9, 2000

  • The 7 vices of highly creative people

    If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
    By D.A. Blyler February 9, 2000

  • A good man is hard to write

    Hemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
    By Jonathan Miles December 2, 1999

  • Gertrude and Alice

    When Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein, she heard bells ring. They went on to have one of the happiest marriages of the 20th century.
    By Amy Benfer November 18, 1999

  • Elmore Leonard

    The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
    By Sean Elder September 28, 1999

  • My private Riviera

    "Tender Is the Night" transports me to my own version of the French Côte d'Azur.
    By Don George June 30, 1999

  • Classics Book Group

    The Salon Classics Book Group: Garrison Keillor on the 'scandalous' -- and mediocre -- 'Sister Carrie.'
    By Garrison Keillor October 13, 1997
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