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A new Jazz Age? Talking Gatsby Soundtrack with a Jazz Legend

By R. Clifton Spargo On July 1, 2013 · Add Comment
With all the hype around Gatsby, and the Jay-Z soundtrack, and the chatter about the roaring 20s and the jazz age, I just had to get jazz legend Ramsey Lewis to weigh in on the state of jazz in the here and now. Read the article at: The [...]
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Beautiful Fools in First Bloom

By R. Clifton Spargo On May 30, 2013 · Add Comment
Last week I visited Eureka Springs, Arkansas to talk about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald and my new novel Beautiful Fools for the
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Should You Take Relationship Advice from Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald?

On May 10, 2013 By R. Clifton Spargo
Check out my latest article, written for Glo, “11 Love Lessons From the Real Gatsby and His Golden Girl,” which explores the “do’s” and “don’ts” of romantic relationship by retelling stories from the marriage of America’s favorite literary couple. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether their desperate attempts at [...]
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“Scenes from a Marriage: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald”

On May 8, 2013 By R. Clifton Spargo
Check out my latest piece, “Scenes From a Marriage: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,” on The Huffington Post– and, in case you hadn’t guessed, 1 of those 12 rare facts pertains to the last trip they took together, which is at the center of [...]
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Happy Anniversary Gatsby!

On April 10, 2013 By Jennifer Spargo Mitchell
Read Clifton’s latest piece for the HI/LO at the Huffington Post in which he asks readers, many of whom haven’t read The Great Gatsby since high school, to have a second look — “now that you’re wiser for the years, humbled by loss and longing, better able to appreciate the [...]
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A Day for Beautiful and Not So Beautiful Fools

On April 1, 2013 By R. Clifton Spargo
A new piece published today on The Huffington Post, in the spirit of this April Fools’ Day, with a nod to the title of my soon-to-arrive novel — the post riffs on Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, on their sometimes bizarre sense of humor, and on Scott’s penchant for practical jokes, [...]
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New Piece on Fitzgerald’s Irish and Mine at the Huffington Post

On March 29, 2013 By R. Clifton Spargo
I write a blog called “HI/LO,” on the interplay between high and low culture for the Huffington Post. The “Books” page recently featured my piece on Scott Fitzgerald’s complicated relationship to his Irish heritage, colored by a dash of my own Irish. The article entitled, “The Reluctant Irishman: F. Scott [...]
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More Coverage of Beautiful Fools in The Wall Street Journal

On March 29, 2013 By R. Clifton Spargo
Alexandra Alter recently interviewed me for a Wall Street Journal piece on the new wave of interest in Zelda Fitzgerald, and several novels, including “Beautiful Fools ,” that tell Zelda (and Scott’s) story from their unique perspectives. The article was featured on the cover of the Books section of the [...]
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Talking About Beautiful Fools as “The Next Big Thing”

On March 15, 2013 By R. Clifton Spargo
R. Clifton Spargo was tagged by novelist and short story writer Don Waters — author of a forthcoming novel Sunland and the terrific collection of stories called Desert Gothic — for a self-interview project called The Next Big Thing. Basically, it’s a version of a social media chain letter, but [...]
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