The "Tender" Cluster:

According to the forward in the collection of stories I have from 1989 (written by an honest to goodness Fitzgerald scholar--who sadly passed last year), F. Scott may have published both novels and short stories, but his works were not seperate from one another.

"He routinely 'stripped' passages from a story for reuse in a novel."
-- Bruccoli

I was having a hard time trying to figure out HOW I was going to organize this blog (my reading)--short of chronologically--I am going to start with my first cluster of stories that belong to the "gestation" of Tender is the Night:

"One Trip Abroad" Read 12/30/09
"Babylon Revisited"
"The Bridal Party" Read 12/29/09
"The Swimmers" Read 01/01/10
"Jacob's Ladder"
"The Hotel Child" 01/01/10

So with my highlighter, dictionary, and very large book I am going to get to it.

~~J

Because Tender was my first novel and therefore it will always be my favorite!