Old Mister Brenon - Frank McNally on a remarkable Dublin-born Hollywood director and his even more remarkable father
After that, I went down a rabbit hole in pursuit of Brenon’s father. He was a former Irish Times editorial writer, poet, and ...
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St. Paul celebrates F. Scott Fitzgerald, a century of 'The Great Gatsby'
2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the publishing of "The Great Gatsby." Its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a native son ...
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At 100 “The Great Gatsby” is as urgent as ever, old sport
A quarter of “The Great Gatsby” has passed before, at one of his lavish parties, Jay Gatsby bumps into Nick Carraway, the ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald statue disappears from site of novelist’s former school
A statue of famed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was stolen from outside a Minnesota building where he once attended school, police said. The statue, which had been located outside the Academy ...
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The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years
As laid out by Matthew J. Bruccoli in the definitive Fitzgerald biography, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, F. Scott Fitzgerald set out to fulfill his promise as one of the most promising novelists of ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s statue — and stature
A 37-year-old St. Paul man has been charged with the theft of a bronze statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald that was at the former site of St. Paul Academy. But while it was possible to separate the stat ...