New biographies, a tv series, an upcoming Zelda film directed by Ron "Walking Distance" Howard, with ScarJo slated to star in that adaptation of The Beautiful and Damned...the Twenties are here to stay!
Received the Dearborn Hemingway bio as well as the Paradise Lost Fitzgerald bio. The latter goes into Scott's work in some detail, so I'll wait until I've read This Side of Paradise (NOT the Star Track episode) before commencing. I have SO much to read! Gah! Have to go on a spending freeze.
In scanning through the Scott bio, I learned that in 1940, the year of Scott's death, The Great Gatsby sold no more than 15 (that's fifteen) copies. Fitzgerald died believing he had become a failure.
The Princeton alumni meeting up with Papa makes me wish that someone would compile the reminiscences of "regular Joes and Janes" who met Ernest Hemingway. There are a couple of published books of this (Arnold Samuelson's being one; the other slips my mind), but there's something about John Q. Public meeting with Nobel-Prize-winning-author that I find to be yet another angle of biography that isn't often covered in scholarly works. "The Unguarded Hemingway", as it were.
LOL oh yes. I've traveled many miles and caught up with select folks maybe not of Hemingway calibre (a few might disagree) in rather off-the-cuff circumstances. 'S funny you should mention "Buz Murdock." Once drove 10,800 miles in 31 days. Hit much of what is worth hitting in this country. Including a cornfield in Iowa. Where I ran into a college coach of one of my ballplayers. Who had driven in from Pennsylvania.
"80 years ago this week, Ernest Hemingway, the author of “The Sun Also Rises” and “A Farewell to Arms,” grudgingly visited Los Angeles. He had once recommended the only way for a writer to deal with Hollywood: “You throw them your book, they throw you the money, then you jump into your car and drive like hell back the way you came.”
Love the "grudgingly" part. LOL Wonder what he thought of the smog?
Maybe it's this recent extended immersion in all those Ingmar Bergman films, but I don't know what anyone's talking about around here lately. Are you referencing "Field of Dreams", Howard? Or that glorious summer of Howard L's 1963, when all still seemed possible?
I'm not sure if I've ever been aware of that Hemingway-Salinger meet up and correspondence, but it seems oddly familiar. Was it James Jones who was the author Papa couldn't stand?
This program, "Weekend in Havana" was on last night, and this brief article about Cojimar, the Cuban fishing village where the Pilar was moored. The article includes a 4:51 excerpt from the show:
