Today, September 24th would have been F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 125th birthday. Though he died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 44, his work has had many afterlives, his reputation rising and falling with economic conditions and Baz Luhrmann adaptations. To mark this anniversary, Benjamin Nugent (author, most recently, of the linked … Continue reading Do Fictional Critiques of the Wealthy Ever Really . . . Work?