he’s a great, hard hitting investigative journalist. It’s hard to make time for reading. Whenever I read for too long, I feel like I should be writing.
What was it about Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald that made such an impact on you?
HR: Because it’s such a tale of total human destruction, told so slowly and carefully that it’s hard to figure out when these people started falling apart. It took FSF almost a decade to write it. One of the interesting sidebar things about the book is a letter Hemingway wrote to FSF after he asked Hem’s opinion. The letter is classic Hemingway and gives you some insight into the book’s bones. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/04/forget-your-personal-tragedy.html
Thanks, Henry!
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Photo credit: Kris Denton, 2011.
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