Hemingway and Fitzgerald

A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of this time spent in Paris, has taken an interesting turn. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, among other fine works, has arrived in Paris and befriended Hemingway. Hemingway looks up to Fitzgerald and seems him as a seasoned writer and the two strike up a mutually beneficial friendship, at least during the first couple of years.

Hemingway doesn't pull many punches as he details Fitzgerald's increasing problems with alcohol and the damage his drinking did to his writing career. Hemingway also doesn't mince words about Fitzgerald's wife Zelda and her effect on his writing career (and her possibility as the source of the Fitzgerald's drinking problem).

It is my hope that A Moveable Feast will find a happier title on which to end. The book is almost finished, in fact I might finish the book tonight should I go to bed at a decent enough hour and squeeze in a hour or so of reading. So far I have a few dog-eared pages of material I wish to share with my readership (all three of you) and I will undertake that endeavor upon completion of the book.

My budding library has picked up two more titles: Blaze by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman and Lisey's Story also by King. Authors I wish to add to the library are Yates and anyone else off this list.