Lost Generation discussion

This is pretty darned funny:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/122698240...

It is a wonder that someone is making these dolls...kudos for such a unique subject!

I know, I was hoping to find a Sylvia Beach one.

Here's a "Great Gatsby" contest: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/blog/...

I wasn't sure if I should start a new thread for this , but with all the new books on Zelda, I read an article that recommended the older Nancy milford book titles "Zelda". I'm reading it now, and its good. Anyone else read it? Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere. Also anyone see the new Gatsby movie?

I don't believe we've had any discussions of Mitford's book. It's been a long time since I read it & will look at it again. Thanks!

Just when you thought there was nothing else to be done with Hemingway, there's this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/...

Charlotte wrote: "Just when you thought there was nothing else to be done with Hemingway, there's this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/..."

Love it!!

For all you Joyce fans:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/...

LOVE Milford's book...I did read Z and was terribly disappointed. I almost felt foolish reading it actually. Looking forward to getting back into some novels after the end of school madness.

I wish to extend a warm welcome to all of our new LG members. We are up to 120!
I apologize for being a bit lax in my attention to the group, but summer is a busy time for me in my extensive gardens & travel.
I hope all LG'ers will have a glorious summer with plenty of time to read (and re-read) all those Lost Generation books you have piled up.
New members, please feel free to post any ideas, questions & comments to share with us all.
A new member, Matthew, has kick-started the conversation ball with
his intriguing look at Hemingway. I sent a copy to all of you & trust you got a lot out of it & will now take part in the discussion.
Happy summer!

This from the Paris Review feed: (still time to make it!)

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ARTS & CULTURE
The Old Men and the Sea
July 17, 2013 | by Sadie Stein

Hemingway Days, the annual Key West celebration of all things Papa, takes place from July 16–21 this year. Scheduled events include thematic lectures by Hemingway experts, readings, cocktail parties, a silent auction, a marlin derby, and, of course, the famous Sloppy Joe’s lookalike contest. The following is a video from 2010. Though for the first thirty-six seconds it seems disappointingly lite on Hemingways, just wait.

Here's a link, courtesy of The Paris Review feed for a compilation of Hemingway's early life from scrapbooks made by his mother:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/About-Us/Ne...

This looks pretty neat for FSF fans:

http://electricliterature.com/blog/20...

LOL, this is a riot Charlotte. Thanks for sharing.

This is a fun link for FSF, esp. if you are a jazz fan:

http://www.generativegatsby.com

Found it on Paris Review feed

Charlotte wrote: "This is a fun link for FSF, esp. if you are a jazz fan:

http://www.generativegatsby.com

Found it on Paris Review feed"

<3 Fun!
Currently reading Fowler's Z. Music to read by.

Long lost paper offers readers F. Scott Fitzgerald’s must-read list

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/03/...


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/03/...

Barbara, thanks for posting the link to Dorothy Richardson's list of FSF's "must read" books. You always expect that lists like this will be dated (who reads Ernest Renan any more? e.g.) but so much on this list is really good, and also revelatory of the kind of writing and storytelling that Fitzgerald valued. Fascinating tidbit.

Amanda wrote: "Barbara, thanks for posting the link to Dorothy Richardson's list of FSF's "must read" books. You always expect that lists like this will be dated (who reads Ernest Renan any more? e.g.) but so muc..."

Funny, that last month or so I've stumbled upon suggested reading lists from both Hemingway & Fitzgerald.

I hadn't been here in a while, not getting alerts for some reason but anyways thanks everyone for the updates and links to info. Love it!! Finished the Mitford Zelda book, it was fascinating although sad. :(

Hi Everyone, here's FSF reading Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale":

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.ph...

FSF's "This Side of Paradise" manuscript has been digitized:

http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/bc3...

For Hemingway fans:

http://pagesix.com/2013/09/17/estate-...

This board has been awfully quiet for a while. I'm poking my head in to report that there's a new website just opened for John Dos Passos, who in addition to being the author of the extraordinary USA trilogy and many other books, and a friend of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, the Murphys, and everybody else, was also a gifted painter and watercolorist. The site features his art as well as his books, with links to purchase the latter (and wonderful photos of the original bindings). Well worth a visit: http://www.johndospassos.com/

thanks for all the links, everyone, listening to the jazz music now. Cant get enough 20's music lately.

Music must be in the air! I am listening to an Apple Genius French mix which has a lot of jazz, too.

dew wrote: "This weekend, I tried watching the HBO film 'Hemingway and Gellhorn" but it was terrible. I wanted to like it! I gave it the hook about halfway through."

I was fairly disappointed in "Hemingway & Gellhorn" as well tho I thought Clive Owen's "Hemingway" was excellent ... just came across the movie and started watching it without reading beforehand who was in it and such ... didn't even recognize Clive Owen and was surprised when I went to Imdb to see who was playing Hemingway ...

Corey Stoll's "Hemingway" in "Midnight in Paris" was also excellent I thought ... does anyone know if the various chunks of dialogue exhanged with Owen Wilson's character while in riding in the car is from Hemingway's writinga? It certainly "sounded like" Hem but I couldn't place it if indeed it was "genuine" Hem ... if it was Woody Allen mimickining Hem, Allen did a darned fine job in doing so I thought ...

btw I just came across the group and joined immediately since the Lost Generation's writings have always rang so true to me ever since first starting in with F. Scott's works in seventh grade ... both he and Hem are in my top 10 favorite writers of all-time

Cormac wrote: "dew wrote: "This weekend, I tried watching the HBO film 'Hemingway and Gellhorn" but it was terrible. I wanted to like it! I gave it the hook about halfway through."

I was fairly disappointed in "..."

Not to blow my own horn (is that even allowed here?), but if you would like to get what Hemingway would call "the true gen" on Hem and Gellhorn in Spain, you might check out "Hotel Florida," which is just out in paperback....

Forgot to post a link to this here, but the group might be interested in a piece I wrote for The Octavian Report about Hemingway in Paris, at the time he wrote "In Our Time": http://octavianreport.com/article/in-...

Amanda wrote: "Forgot to post a link to this here, but the group might be interested in a piece I wrote for The Octavian Report about Hemingway in Paris, at the time he wrote "In Our Time": http://octavianreport...."
Excellent article...thanks for sharing. Now I'd like to read Everybody Was So Young. Wasn't aware you had written it.

Everybody Was So Young! Loved it!! I think the Murphy's contribution to the Lost Generation was highly underrated and this book provides the missing links!Higly recommended

Nancy wrote: "Everybody Was So Young! Loved it!! I think the Murphy's contribution to the Lost Generation was highly underrated and this book provides the missing links!Higly recommended"

Thank you, Nancy!!!!