58 posts tagged f scott fitzgerald

A new batch of author inspired drawings done on pages from their books. From top (L to R): Sebastian Junger (A Perfect Storm), Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn), Stephen Crane (Red Badge of Courage) From Bottom (L to R): F.

yesterday i turned the great gatsby from a SHOULD into a HAVE DID. i did it quite quickly because, bloody, it is good. but i couldn't stop from 'recontextualising' and superimposing 'modern accents' and thinking about marc jacobs eau de parfum.

Saint Paul. Supposedly the most livable city in America. I didn't know that until I took a brief visit to the official city website, which also informed me that St. Paul is the Arts and Cultural Capital of the Midwest, which I find easy to believe. One of the greatest things about the Twin Cities is that they are really not twins at all.

Filed under: miscellaneous, recreation, book reviews I am one of the lucky ones. I grew up with my mother reading to me constantly, and since I always saw my parents reading, I had good examples (ah, the power of modeling). Reading was an innate love for me.

Wooo, time for the soft-launch! To match this double entendre my first big update will be about sex. These days the word “pervert” is mostly used to talk about sex, but it has more to do with taking a social norm and twisting it until it is something completely different.

As part of DC’s participation in the NEA’s Big Read program, I recently read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I should say re-read, because I distinctly remember reading the book in high school and then again in college. But that was awhile ago, so I was reading with fairly fresh eyes this time around.

I enjoyed the Great Gatsby in 11th grade. I never thought several events could be created based on it, though. Fitzgerald in Hollywood Tuesday May 13, 2008 7:00 pm David Kipen, Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts, talks about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s adventures in Hollywood.

13 May 2008 00:19 Africa/Lagos Bringing Shakespeare to Las Vegas Bauman Rare Books Opens at The Shoppes at The Palazzo LAS VEGAS, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauman Rare Books, a familiar landmark on Madison Avenue in New York for lovers of antiquarian books and autographs, announces its opening at The Shoppes at The Palazzo in Las Vegas.

It happens every now and then, where although life keeps on going and moving forward, I still feel I have nothing to report. Nothing worth writing about anyway. That's the point I'm at right now. There is so little going on that is of actual substance it makes it difficult to justify hitting that Publish Post button and subjecting readers to the mundane details of my everyday life.

“Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald Not hiding…the court–and his family–is his solitude Kobe Bean Bryant is the story of how a child from West Philadelphia, grew into a man of worldwide acclaim.