Beste Scott Fitz Podcasts (2024)

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"The Love Boat" 59:16

6M ago59:16

59:16

Imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald in the afterlife, some thirty-six years after his premature passing, discovering to his dismay that the cheesiest TV producer ever has copped the title to a little-known short story of his and turned it into a landmark of cultural kitsch. That's the premise of this episode, in which we dissect the creepiest story Fitzger…

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"What a Handsome Pair!" 57:22

8M ago57:22

57:22

Published in the August 27, 1932, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, "What a Handsome Pair!" clearly reflects F. Scott Fitzgerald's dour view of marital relationships amid the relapse that took Zelda to the Phipps Clinic in Baltimore. The story of two couples, Stuart and Helen Oldhorne and Teddy and Betty Van Beck, "Pair!" insists that for men to …

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"The Sensible Thing" 49:26

11M ago49:26

49:26

Published on July 5, 1924 as F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby, this Liberty short story has always been seen as a key rehearsal for his magnum opus. In the story of George Rollins (or George O'Kelly in the version that appeared in 1926 in All the Sad Young Men) as he pursues the Tennessee belle Jonquil Cary we have yet another varia…

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Chapter 9 39:25

11M ago39:25

39:25

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Chapter 8 35:34

11M ago35:34

35:34

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Chapter 7 1:09:16

11M ago1:09:16

1:09:16

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Chapter 6 33:04

11M ago33:04

33:04

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Chapter 5 32:30

11M ago32:30

32:30

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Chapter 4 41:55

11M ago41:55

41:55

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Chapter 3 42:50

11M ago42:50

42:50

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Chapter 2 29:51

11M ago29:51

29:51

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Chapter 1 38:53

11M ago38:53

38:53

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The Ants at Princeton 50:28

1y ago50:28

50:28

Appearing in the June 1936 issue of Esquire, "The Ants at Princeton" is by any measure a singularly kooky entry in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short-story corpus. A fantasy about a human-sized ant who steps onto the field to save the game between heated rivals Princeton and Harvard (you can probably guess who FSF roots for), the text has always baffled s…

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Her Last Case 55:25

1+ y ago55:25

55:25

Published in fall 1934 in the Saturday Evening Post, "Her Last Case" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most important stories about the South. Indeed, it challenges consensus opinions about the writer's regard for the region that the Tarleton stories of the 1920s set. Far from a pastoral evocation of antebellum gentility, the story insists the South …

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Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman 50:59

2y ago50:59

50:59

A contender for one of the strangest Fitzgerald titles ever, "Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman," published in April 1924, tells the story of a maverick young debutante, Diana Dickey, who returns from the Western front where she served as a canteen girl to spend the next five years wondering what to do with her life. Only when wounded aviator…

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"Babylon Revisited" 1:05:23

2y ago1:05:23

1:05:23

In late 1930 as Zelda Fitzgerald remained hospitalized in a sanitarium trying to regain her sanity her husband cranked out a frenzied series of stories to pay for her treatment. Out of this whirlwind of effort came "Babylon Revisited," which appeared originally in the February 21, 1931, issue of the Saturday Evening Post and later anchored the four…

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The Four Fists 46:35

2+ y ago46:35

46:35

As spring turned to summer in 1920 and This Side of Paradise was making a celebrity of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the periodical published by his very own publisher, Scribner's Magazine, featured an atypical story by him: "The Four Fists," whose premise is---no, seriously---that we would all be better off if in moments of moral impurity we took a knuckle…

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Crazy Sunday 58:27

2+ y ago58:27

58:27

In late 1931 F. Scott Fitzgerald traveled to Hollywood for a second attempt to crack the lucrative movie market. While there he attended a party at the home of MGM studio chieftain Irving Thalberg and his wife, Norma Shearer, at which he performed a bit of drunken doggerel and embarrassed himself. Never one not to avail himself of autobiographical …

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The Fiend 44:50

3y ago44:50

44:50

Of all the commercial genres F. Scott Fitzgerald attempted in his stories (romance, moral tales, even fantasy and supernatural fiction), he was probably least adept at crime writing. That may seem odd considering The Great Gatsby's influence on the gangster tales and film noir and given the fact the crime fiction was racing toward its hardboiled pe…

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Porcelain and Pink 1:01:15

3y ago1:01:15

1:01:15

Just when you thought your stocking couldn't get any more stuffed this Christmas, we're slipping underneath your holly jolly to drop our second episode of season two. "Porcelain and Pink" appeared in the January 1920 issue of The Smart Set, one month before F. Scott Fitzgerald debuted in the Saturday Evening Post and two before the publication of T…

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He Thinks He's Wonderful 54:42

3y ago54:42

54:42

We kick off season 2 of Master the 40 with our first foray into the series of "juveniles" Fitzgerald wrote for the Saturday Evening Post between 1928 and 1931. Actually, he wrote two coming-of-age series for the magazine, one about a boy (Basil Duke Lee) and one about a girl (Josephine Perry). The latter tend to be darker and sadder, while the form…

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One Trip Abroad 59:24

3+ y ago59:24

59:24

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," which totally blows anything else in that issue of the Saturday Evening Post out of the water. Many critics considered it Fitzgerald's second greatest story about expatriation after "Babylon Revisited," which was written r…

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John Jackson's Arcady 49:05

3+ y ago49:05

49:05

Some critics have dismissed this story of a man who escapes his worldly woes by fleeing his office to return to his small-town, rundown origins as "pure trash," but we uncover some historical reasons it should be of interest. First, "John Jackson's Arcady" was the last short story Fitzgerald wrote in April 1924 before departing for the Riviera to w…

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The Lost Decade 55:42

3+ y ago55:42

55:42

Our eighth episode focuses on the shortest short story Fitzgerald ever published, "The Lost Decade," which clocks in at only 1,100 words, making it Depression-era kin to today's flash fiction. Appearing in Esquire in December 1939 (exactly one year before the author's death), "Decade" is a haunting masterpiece of intimation and mood: eminence grise…

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At Your Age 52:56

3+ y ago52:56

52:56

Our first episode of 2021 examines a story that has been completely ignored both by fans and scholars: August 17, 1929's "At Your Age." The lack of interest is curious for a couple of reasons. For starters, this tale of a fifty-year-old bachelor, Tom Squires, confronting age-inappropriate behavior as he chases after a debutante thirty years his jun…

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Pat Hobby and Orson Welles 56:45

4y ago56:45

56:45

Hot on the heels of David Fincher's Mank, a hotly disputed retelling of the origins of Citizen Kane, we explore F. Scott Fitzgerald's own take on the rise of Orson Welles. In the final year of his life, without income from Hollywood studios or loans from his longtime agent, Harold Ober, Fitzgerald supported himself by cranking out seventeen short s…

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The Rich Boy: Special Nov 15 Bonus Episode 57:48

4y ago57:48

57:48

For reasons you have to tune in to discover, November 15 is an important day for at least three Fitzgerald diehards. So to celebrate we're offering a special bonus episode featuring our first ever special guest: James L. W. West III, the mastermind behind the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. From 1995 to 2019, Jim singlehanded…

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Gretchen's Forty Winks 53:38

4y ago53:38

53:38

In this episode we nibble on a Fitzgerald comedy so light it could be meringue. Granted, the storyline of a harried husband who slips his wife a Mickey Finn of a sleeping potion so he can finish an important advertising campaign is probably today more of a wake-up call than the high-concept rib-tickler audiences in 1924 read it as. We explore how "…

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May Day 1:08:41

4y ago1:08:41

1:08:41

Most fans agree that "May Day" is among Fitzgerald's all-time greatest stories: certainly Top 10, arguably Top 5, quite possibly No. 2 behind only "Babylon Revisited." Some might even argue that this ambitious "novelette," first published in The Smart Set in July 1920 when its author was all of twenty-three, tops that most-anthologized, most-ubiqui…

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I Got Shoes 1:10:25

4y ago1:10:25

1:10:25

Our second episode looks at one of the most obscure of Fitzgerald's 178 stories, "I Got Shoes." Published in 1933, this eighth-to-last of the author's 60+ contributions to The Saturday Evening Post tells the story of a proud actress, Nell Margery, who schools both her adventurer boyfriend and a daffy gossip columnist on the meaning of professionali…

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The Lees of Happiness 1:07:32

4+ y ago1:07:32

1:07:32

As F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, becomes a Jazz Age rage in 1920, the Chicago Tribune invites the twenty-three-year-old writer to contribute an original short story to its Blue Ribbon Fiction Sunday section. The result is "The Lees of Happiness," published that December on the heels of his first story collection, Flapper…

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Scott Fitz Podcasts

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Krity

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Master the 40: The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kirk Curnutt and Robert Trogdon

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"The Love Boat" 59:16

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"What a Handsome Pair!" 57:22

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"The Sensible Thing" 49:26

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Chapter 9 39:25

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Chapter 8 35:34

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Chapter 7 1:09:16

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Chapter 6 33:04

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Chapter 5 32:30

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Chapter 4 41:55

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Chapter 3 42:50

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Chapter 2 29:51

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Chapter 1 38:53

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The Ants at Princeton 50:28

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Her Last Case 55:25

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Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman 50:59

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"Babylon Revisited" 1:05:23

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The Four Fists 46:35

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Crazy Sunday 58:27

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The Fiend 44:50

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Porcelain and Pink 1:01:15

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He Thinks He's Wonderful 54:42

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One Trip Abroad 59:24

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John Jackson's Arcady 49:05

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The Lost Decade 55:42

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At Your Age 52:56

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Pat Hobby and Orson Welles 56:45

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The Rich Boy: Special Nov 15 Bonus Episode 57:48

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Gretchen's Forty Winks 53:38

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May Day 1:08:41

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I Got Shoes 1:10:25

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The Lees of Happiness 1:07:32

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