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The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:34:17
Publish Date: 2015-11-01 19:22:50
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In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published a radical series of essays in Esquire about his mental breakdown. Celebrated poet and memoirist Nick Flynn discusses with host David Brancaccio (public radio’s Marketplace, PBS’ NOW) Fitzgerald’s mindset at the time, the ridicule he faced from friends like Ernest Hemingway, and how his essays set off a genre of confessional writing that persists and thrives today.
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