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September 24, 1896
f. scott fitzgerald
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“Entertaining Millions:
F. Scott Fitzgerald & Jazz Age Magazines”
F. Scott Fitzgerald & Jazz Age Magazines”
Sunday, October 13th, 2024, 5:00 – 6:30
Alexandra Mitchell & Jennifer Nolan
This program will introduce participants to the periodical world that Fitzgerald published in, demonstrate his understanding of his place in this market, and reveal how our understanding of Fitzgerald is enriched by returning to the popular magazines of his day.
We had a Free Zoom Session from 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Throughout the 1920s, with audiences in the millions, popular magazines served as one of the most influential forms of mass media entertainment, and savvy writers and artists, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, could find both fortune and fame by publishing regularly in them. Fitzgerald’s ability to read the Jazz Age magazine market just as adeptly as he read the Jazz Age itself was fundamental to his success as an author in his own time and to his enduring significance today.
It is this fact that underpins the Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a book series that seeks to reprint all of Fitzgerald’s magazine stories in the versions and order that they appeared in the American literary marketplace, along with analysis of and visual materials from the magazines where he published.
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