Hemingway’s First Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Burguete, Naverre, Spain. July 1 [1925] – Dear Scott – We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing here. How are you? And how is Zelda? I am feeling better than I’ve ever felt — haven’t...
View ArticleJohn Updike on Making Peace with Our Past Selves
“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?...
View ArticleHow Society Operates
Laurie Taylor: One of the things people say about your books is the difficulty in feeling any empathy or sympathy for the characters… why aren’t your characters lovable? Will Self: But people aren’t...
View ArticleF. Scott Fitzgerald on Succeeding Early in Life
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. When the primary objects of love and money could be taken for granted and a...
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