Master the 40: The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Master the 40: The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1929 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Ernest Hemingway that because his short stories now earned $4000 a pop he was "an old whore" who had "mastered the 40 positions" when "in her youth one was enough." But were the upwards of 180 stories he cranked out when not writing The Great Gatsby really the work...
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"The Offshore Pirate"
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After a year's sabbatical planning the April 2025 Gatsby Centennial and the Fitzgerald Society's June 2025 accompanying conferenc...
"The Love Boat"
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Imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald in the afterlife, some thirty-six years after his premature passing, discovering to his dismay that t...
"What a Handsome Pair!"
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Published in the August 27, 1932, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, "What a Handsome Pair!" clearly reflects F. Scott Fitzgeral...
"The Sensible Thing"
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Published on July 5, 1924 as F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby, this Liberty short story has always been seen as a...
The Ants at Princeton
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Appearing in the June 1936 issue of Esquire, "The Ants at Princeton" is by any measure a singularly kooky entry in F. Scott Fitzg...
Her Last Case
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Published in fall 1934 in the Saturday Evening Post, "Her Last Case" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most important stories about...
Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman
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A contender for one of the strangest Fitzgerald titles ever, "Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman," published in April 1924, ...
"Babylon Revisited"
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In late 1930 as Zelda Fitzgerald remained hospitalized in a sanitarium trying to regain her sanity her husband cranked out a fren...
The Four Fists
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As spring turned to summer in 1920 and This Side of Paradise was making a celebrity of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the periodical publis...
Crazy Sunday
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In late 1931 F. Scott Fitzgerald traveled to Hollywood for a second attempt to crack the lucrative movie market. While there he a...
The Fiend
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Of all the commercial genres F. Scott Fitzgerald attempted in his stories (romance, moral tales, even fantasy and supernatural fi...
Porcelain and Pink
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Just when you thought your stocking couldn't get any more stuffed this Christmas, we're slipping underneath your holly jolly to d...
He Thinks He's Wonderful
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We kick off season 2 of Master the 40 with our first foray into the series of "juveniles" Fitzgerald wrote for the Saturday Eveni...
One Trip Abroad
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For our tenth episode we explore a short story we think falls just outside of the Top 10: October 11, 1930's "One Trip Abroad," w...
John Jackson's Arcady
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Some critics have dismissed this story of a man who escapes his worldly woes by fleeing his office to return to his small-town, r...
The Lost Decade
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Our eighth episode focuses on the shortest short story Fitzgerald ever published, "The Lost Decade," which clocks in at only 1,10...
At Your Age
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Our first episode of 2021 examines a story that has been completely ignored both by fans and scholars: August 17, 1929's "At You...
Pat Hobby and Orson Welles
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Hot on the heels of David Fincher's Mank, a hotly disputed retelling of the origins of Citizen Kane, we explore F. Scott Fitzger...
The Rich Boy: Special Nov 15 Bonus Episode
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For reasons you have to tune in to discover, November 15 is an important day for at least three Fitzgerald diehards. So to celebr...
Gretchen's Forty Winks
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In this episode we nibble on a Fitzgerald comedy so light it could be meringue. Granted, the storyline of a harried husband who s...
May Day
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Most fans agree that "May Day" is among Fitzgerald's all-time greatest stories: certainly Top 10, arguably Top 5, quite possibly...
I Got Shoes
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Our second episode looks at one of the most obscure of Fitzgerald's 178 stories, "I Got Shoes." Published in 1933, this eighth-to...
The Lees of Happiness
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As F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, becomes a Jazz Age rage in 1920, the Chicago Tribune invites the twe...