A day or two after the trip Scott brought his book over. It had a garish dust jacket and I remember being embarrassed by the violence, bad taste, and slippery look of it. It looked the book jacket for a book of bad science fiction. Scott told me not to be put off by it, that it had to do with a billboard along a highway in Long Island that was important to the story. He said he had liked the jacket and now he didn’t like it. I took it off to read the book..I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

~   Ernest Hemingway’s review of The Great Gatsby in A Moveable Feast
02.23.12 /23:28
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