I found a little gem in the "new" (i.e. untouched by Mary Hemingway) edition of A MOVEABLE FEAST. Hemingway's talking about F. Scott Fitzgerald and THE GREAT GATSBY --
" . . . Scott brought his book over. It had a garish dust jacket and I remember being embarrassed by the violence, bad taste, and slippery look of it. It looked the book jacket for a bad book of science fiction . . . . I took it off to read the book."
What's fun about this to the insider is that Fitzgerald had _loved_ that pa...
Published on June 04, 2010 12:48