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• Louis Armstrong – The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings (4

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• Mel Bay – Mel Bay presents songs of the jazz age . (book with CD) - Gatsby

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• Russ Columbo -– Prisoner of love: 23 crooning hits, d 1928-1934 - CD COLUMBO Further Reading • Johnny Dodds – Great Original Performances, 1923-1929 - CD DODDS available through the • Jelly Roll Morton - The Chicago Years - CD MORTON Jefferson-Madison Regional Library • Bessie Smith - Bessie Smith - CD SMITH Flappers, bathtub gin, & Jazz d • Ethel Waters - Ethel Waters - CD WATERS • Various performers – Favorites of the Nonfiction about the Roaring Twenties Alternate versions of “The Great Gatsby ” Roaring Twenties, from the original recordings. (2 CDs) - CD FAVORITES • Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin : writers running wild in the Twenties, by • The movie starring Robert Redford & Mia Farrow Marion Meade. - 810.9 MEADE • Audio book, on CD or cassette Related Movies • Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: how Americans lived through the “Roaring Twenties”, by David E. Kyvig - 973.91 KYVIG • En Español: El Gran Gatsby [traducción: Julia Martin] • Under the Biltmore Clock. American Playhouse, 1986. (70 min.) • The Damned and the Beautiful: American youth in the 1920s, by Paula S. • Trimalchio: an early version of The Great Gatsby Based on the story “Myra Meets his Family” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. - Fass - 301.43 FASS VT 813 UNDER • Everybody was so young : Gerald and Sara Murphy, a lost generation Adaptations or retellings: • The Last Time I saw Paris. MGM, 1954 (116 min.) Based on the story love story , by Amanda Vaill - 920 VAILL “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. - VT LAST • Exile's return : a literary odyssey of the 1920s, by Malcolm Cowley - • Jake, Reinvented, by Gordon Korman - set in an • Bernice Bobs her Hair. originally aired on PBS, 1976. (48 min.) 810.9 COWLEY American high school with teenage characters - YA • Based on the story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. - VT Fashions of a decade. The 1920s, by Jacqueline Herald - 391.09 HERALD KORMAN 813 BERNICE • The Jazz Age : the 20s, by the editors of Time-Life Books. - 973.91 JAZZ • Black Money, by Ross Macdonald - • • The Last of the BellesOriginally aired on ABC TV, 1974. The story New World Coming: the 1920s and the making of modern America, by a retelling in 1960s California - M MACDONALD Nathan Miller - 973.91 MILLER of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s meeting. - VT LAST • • Only yesterday: an informal history of the nineteen-twenties, by The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian - features events • F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great American Dreamer. Biography series, Frederick Lewis Allen - 973.91 ALLEN and characters from the novel as historical background - A&E Home Video, 1997. (50 min.) - VT 92 FITZGERALD • Posing a threat : flappers, chorus girls, and other brazen performers of F BOHJALIAN • The Cotton Club. Beacon Films, 1982. (29 min.) Jazz music in New the American 1920s, by Angela J. Latham - 305.42 LATHAM York. - VT 781 COTTON • Redeeming the time: a people's history of the 1920s and the New Deal, Literary Criticism/About the novel: • by Page Smith. - 973.91 SMITH Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band Twentieth Century Fox, • 1938. (109 min.) 1938 Academy Award winner for Best Musical • Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties prohibition on the Michigan- Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Great Gatsby: a Score. - VT ALEXANDER’S Ontario Waterway, by Philip P. Mason - 364.133 MASON collection of critical essays, ed. by Ernest H. Lockridge - • Top Drawer: American high society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring 813.09 LOCKRIDGE Did you know? Twenties, by Mary Cable - 301.44 CABLE • The Great Gatsby: the limits of wonder, by Richard The character of Meyer Wolfsheim is based on Arnold Did you know? Lehan - 813.52 LEHAN Rothstein , who fixed the 1919 World Series. Although the novel doesn’t discuss it at length, readers at Dan Cody, Gatsby’s mentor, owns the yacht named • Readings on The Great Gatsby, ed. By Katie de the time would have known the de- Tuolomee — it was probably named after the gold fields Koster - 813.52 READINGS tails of the allusion. Find out more in northern California. about the events and characters sur- rounding the scandal: J-MRL is partnering with the Virginia Foundation Did you know? — The Chicago "Black Sox" baseball Fitzgerald originally entitled the book scandal : a headline court case Mi- Center for the Book in The BIG READ, which is Trimalchio in West Egg , after a chael J. Pellowski an initiative of the National Endowment for the character in the Satyricon by Petronius. The — Blue Ruin: a novel of the 1919 World Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library character is a wealthy man known for throwing Series , by Brendan Boyd lavish dinner parties . Or watch the movie: Eight Men Out Services, and Arts Midwest. Scott and Zelda What else were they reading in A Great Age, old sport Other novels and stories by F Scott Fitzgerald: the 1920 s? Historical fiction set in the Jazz Age (all F FITZGERALD except as noted) * = also available • Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis - F DENNIS • Taps at Reveille on audio Some bestsellers of the time: • Bandbox, by Thomas Mallon - F MALLON • Babylon Revisited, and other stories 1920 Zane Grey, The Man of the Forest • The Beautiful and Damned * • Blue Bottle Club by Penelope Stokes - TB STOKES • 1921 Sinclair Lewis, Main Street Tender is the Night * Bryant 1924 Edna Ferber, So Big • Carter Beats the Devil by Glen Gold - F GOLD • The Last Tycoon Mangum will be speak- 1925 Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes • The Daisy Dalrymple series by Carola Dunn - M DUNN • This Side of Paradise * ing at three •
libraries in 1926 John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy • Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury - SF/YA PB BRADBURY The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, April! See the edited by Bryant Mangum BIG READ 1927 Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry • Free Love by Annette Meyers - F MEYERS • Six tales of the Jazz Age, and other stories Schedule for 1928 Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey details. • Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston - F PRESTON • The Basil and Josephine stories 1929 Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front • Jazz by Toni Morrison - F MORRISON • The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald *
Caroline • • Essential Fitzgerald (*audio only Legs, by William Kennedy - F KENNEDY Preston • will be speak- • Afternoon of an Author, a selection of “The Lost Generation” & other literary voices: Oh, Play that Thing by Roddy Doyle - ing at three uncollected stories and essays - 810.8 F DOYLE libraries in • Ernest Hemingway (try The Sun Also Rises-1926) April! See the FITZGERALD • A Place called Rainwater by Dorothy BIG READ • Schedule for The lives of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: John dos Passos (try Manhattan Transfer-1925) Garlock - F GARLOCK details (all 92 FITZGERALD except as noted) • Sherwood Anderson • Ragtime, by E. L. Doctorow - F DOCTOROW • • The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald Dorothy Parker • Road to Perdition by Max Allen Collins - • The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald - 816 FITZGERALD • T.S.Eliot • The Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald - 816 FITZGERALD • Damon Runyon F COLLINS • • Dashiell Hammett • Save Me the Waltz, [an autobiographical novel] by Zelda Fitzgerald- • Thomas Wolfe Sea Glass by Anita Shreve - F SHREVE F FITZGERALD • • Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. by James R. Mellow - Langston Hughes • 920 Mellow Virginia Woolf • Zelda, a biography. by Nancy Milford. • Zora Neale Hurston • The Crack-up [by] F. Scott Fitzgerald, with other uncollected pieces, Did You know? note-books and unpublished letters, together with letters to 1922 The setting of The Great Gatsby is the year 1922. Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T. S. Eliot, Thomas High Society, at home and abroad: Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and essays and poems - 818 Also in 1922 : The Eskimo Pie is patented, construction FITZGERALD • Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel begins on Yankee Stadium, Howard Carter opens King • Beloved Infidel; the education of a woman, by Sheilah Graham and Tut’s tomb, and the Teapot Dome Scandal. Bemelmans Check out: Tutankhamen: the untold story , by Thomas Gerold Frank. • • Hoving. 932 Hoving The Far Side of Paradise; a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Arthur John O’Hara 1925 Mizener. (try Appointment in Samarra) The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. • Some Sort of Epic Grandeur : the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Also in 1925 : The New Yorker magazine is first published, • the Chrysler Corporation was founded, Matthew Bruccoli. Booth Tarkington Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge became president, the • Evelyn Waugh Frisbee is invented, and the Scopes trial was Did you know? • held in Tennessee. Check out: Fitzgerald was friends with Ernest Hemingway, and Scott Edith Wharton — In the Time of Silent Cal , by Jules Abels - 973.15 makes an appearance in Hemingway’s A Movable (try Twilight Sleep) Abels Feast , a collection of anecdotes about expatriate life in — Monkey Town, by Ronald Kidd - YA Kidd 1920’s Paris. • P. G. Wodehouse