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Jackson Bryer on the Fitzgerald Insult in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Jackson Bryer on the Fitzgerald Insult in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

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Legendary scholar Jackson Bryer joins us once again, this time to discuss one controversial moment in Hemingway’s career, his vicious “poor Scott Fitzgerald” swipe in the original publication of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”

We discuss the publication history of this graceless insult, what it says about Hemingway and what it says about Fitzgerald. We go on to discuss “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” as a story and the ways that wealth emerges as one of Fitzgerald’s central themes. We explore the nature of the Hemingway-Fitzgerald relationship in the 1930s, Fitzgerald’s “The Rich Boy,” and other works where the very rich emerge as important characters.

Join us in our romantic awe of Jackson Bryer as he guides us through this notorious moment in Hemingway’s career!

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