Our first of three straight days of panels featured discussions of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (consensus: Brad Pitt is very handsome), Fitzgerald’s “romance of the South,” the Civil War, houses and housewares, and expatriate dissipation. Meanwhile, the registration and box lunch were hubs of activity—opportunities to meet old friends, catch up on new theories, and to plan future projects. The highlight of the morning was Madison Smartt Bell’s fantastic talk about the place of Baltimore in Fitzgerald’s fiction. -Next- -Previous-
Now playing “Babes in the Woods” performed by Harry MacDonough and Lucy Isabelle Marsh (Victor, 1917). To silence, click on the "stop" button.