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• The Lees of Happiness, Tales of the Jazz Age
  on Apr 22, 2011 in The Lees of Happiness F Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age short story
  If you should look through the files of old magazines for the first years of the present century you would find, sandwiched in between the stories of Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris and other long since dead, the works of on Jeffrey Curtain.so...
• More Fitzgerald inspired art- Victoria North
  on Apr 20, 2011 in F Scott Fitzgerald Victoria North art work
  The above portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald is by artist Victoria North.  It is from her Masters Series.Make sure you stop in and see her other works at the Red Chair Gallery.
• Caroline- "O Russet Witch!"
  on Apr 18, 2011 in Caroline quotes Fitzgerald's girls O Russet Witch
  "...Caroline was dazzling and light, with a shimmering morass of russet waves to take the place of hair, and the sort of features that remind you of kisses - the sort of features you thought belonged to your first love, but know, when you came across...
• "O Russet Witch!", Tales of the Jazz Age
  on Apr 15, 2011 in F Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age short story O Russet Witch
  Merlin Grainger was employed by the Moonlight Quill Bookshop, which you may have visited, just around the corner from the Ritz-Carlton on Forty-seventh Street.source"O Russet Witch!": A Summary by me-A man spends his evening watching a girl with russ...
• Planning a St. Paul Tour
  on Apr 12, 2011 in F Scott Fitzgerald random stuff Saint Paul Minnesota
  This summer I will be heading back to Minnesota.  I figured it would be the perfect time to see a bit of Fitzgerald's Minnesota.I recently ordered A Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul from Amazon to get me started.I am just in the beginning...
• Fitzgerald Musings partying at the Ultimate Blog Party
  on Apr 6, 2011
  OK I decided that Fitzgerald Musings will participate in the Ultimate Blog Party. The only reason I hesitate is the extremely narrow focus of this blog.  And then I thought, I will just put it out there and if anyone is interested in F. Sco...
• Benjamin Button has come to live with us
  on Apr 5, 2011 in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button random stuff quotes musings art work
  My soon-to-be 7 year old daughter has become infatuated with Mr. Benjamin Button.How did this happen? Lets see...Every night my little girl asks me to tell her a story about my childhood.  And since my childhood was not very exciting, I ran...
• Tarquin of Cheapside, Tales of the Jazz Age
  on Apr 3, 2011 in F Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age Tarquin of Cheapside short story
  Running Footsteps - Light, soft-soled shoes made of curious leathery cloth brought from Ceylon setting pace; thick flowing boots, two pairs, dark blue and gilt, reflecting the moonlight in blunt gleams and splotches, following a stone's throw behind.
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- Movie vs Short Story
  on Apr 1, 2011 in F Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Jay Gatsby musings names short story movie
  I will start by pointing out the obvious- The movie is loosely based on the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald.  And I am sad to say,  I mean very loosely.  That does not mean I did not like the movie, but instead I almost have to treat...
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tales of the Jazz Age
  on Mar 31, 2011 in F Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Tales of the Jazz Age short story
  As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at Home.  At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable...

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