I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories

Fitzgerald was broke and desperate when he wrote these. You can feel his sweat on the pages. He was trying to pay for Zelda's hospital bills.

“I’d die for you, but I can’t live with you.”

The story about the couple in the mountains feels so heavy. They are trying to outrun a scandal. But you realize they are mostly just running from themselves.

Hollywood really chewed him up and spit him out. He wrote these scripts that nobody wanted. It makes his famous success feel like a fluke.

“It was a dark city, even in the daytime.”

The characters aren't just drinking champagne anymore. They are nursing hangovers in cheap motels. The party definitely ended for him.