Monthly Archives: July 2006

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited and The Lost Decade: damaged men and fractured pasts 0

Two F. Scott Fitzgerald stories—”Babylon Revisited” and “The Lost Decade”—have always been favorites of mine, and I think it is, partially, because they make me think about the grandfather I never knew, and some of the “what-ifs” in my family history. These stories focus on damaged men, hard drinkers with Social Register credentials, men struggling [...]