In the Beginning:

The project:
(courtesy of Ms. Tara Mae)

Pick one author and read everything he or she has ever written, even the crappy children’s book he or she wrote to get him or herself through the death of his or her favorite pet, and the New Yorker essay about his or her loss of the ability to wiggle his or her big toe.

Step one: Pick an author.
12/27/09: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Step two: Get a list of all of the books, essays, etc. he or she has ever written.

Novels
This Side of Paradise (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Scribner, 1922)
The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925)
Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribner, 1934)
The Last Tycoon – (New York: Scribners, 1942)

Short Story Collections
Flappers and Philosophers (1920)
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
All the Sad Young Men (1926)
Taps at Reveille (1935)
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1960)
The Pat Hobby Stories (1962)
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973)
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989)

Essays
"The Crack-Up" (Esquire magazine, February 1936)
"Pasting It Together" (Esquire magazine, March 1936)
"Handle with Care" (Esquire magazine, April 1936)

Step three: Pick a timeline
A year? Two? SIX MONTHS?

Step four: Start reading. Start blogging.