The online version of Esquire Magazine is republishing the essays that made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Crack-Up. Included in the online version are images of the original publication in Esquire in 1936. To my mind Fitzgerald is the quintessential image of the modernist writer as tragic figure: haunted by success, substance abuse, turbulent marriage. To read Fitzgerald is to somehow think about THE WRITER in block caps–he still projects a life lived for literature still. Some of the more recent things about Fitzgerald in the collection include:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Ruth Prigozy, and Milton R. Stern
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night : A Documentary Volume Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Alan Margolies, and Ruth Prigozy
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli with Judith S. Baughman
- Before Gatsby : the First Twenty-Six Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli