The genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald was in far more than simply writing The Great Gatsby, his most famous work. It was in nailing down the aspects of a person that endure over time and those features that come to mark a society indelibly, from the beautiful and charming to the downright hideous.
On the centennial of the publication of Fitzgerald’s collection Tales of the Jazz Age, which first appeared on September 22, 1922, it is hard not to marvel at how much of our contemporary moment is recognizable in Fitzgerald’s elegant, playful, if sometimes mannered prose, even as he savagely reviled and parodied the excesses of his age.
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