Sunday night, April 18, 2021.
A writer trying hard to be one person. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, detail from a caricature by Barry Blitt, in the New Yorker. November 2009.
It was my first inkling Wylie was a writer. And while I like writers---because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer---still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly, or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors, who lean backward trying---only to see their faces in reflecting chandeliers.
--- from “The Last Tycoon” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Lots more to read: "Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood" by Arthur Krystal in the New Yorker, November 16, 2009.
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