An Interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald
May 6, 2008 by drinkinanddronin
This is another incredible interview featured by The Guardian with F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the best America’s ever read.
“Then the reporter asked him how he felt now about the jazz-mad, gin-mad generation whose feverish doings he chronicled in This Side of Paradise. How had they done? How did they stand up in the world?
“Why should I bother myself about them?” he asked. “Haven’t I enough worries of my own? You know as well as I do what has happened to them. Some became brokers and threw themselves out of windows. Others became bankers and shot themselves. Still others became newspaper reporters. And a few became successful authors.”
One guy who was probably more depressed and drunk than Hemingway–all these depressed Mid-western authors–maybe its American authors–I don’t think you can be happy and be an American author.
I have have an article on Hemingway and how he got the F out of Chicago and said his hometown was full of “wide lawns and narrow minds.”–its still true although the area has expanded to hellish proportion to the point where people are cars–maybe i’m ranting–but its true. Thank God for medication, all those authors might have made it a little longer if they had the pharmaceutical advances we do.