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Hello everyone, this is Jack Wilson, the host of the History of Literature Podcast.

I'm so glad you're here and welcome to the show.

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The show doesn't discuss literature in chronological order,

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instead of the earliest ones.

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quite a bit since these early days. But of course where you begin is up to you and

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Hello. His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on the butterfly's wings.

That's Ernest Hemingway, talking about his friend and fellow author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

They were the Pole Stars of the Lost Generation, the collection of young

American authors who came of age in the Paris and New York of the 1920s, the period also known

as the jazz age.

The Hemingway Fitzgerald relationship has been examined for decades and continues to

fascinate.

Why are we so drawn to these two authors?

What do they represent in American literature? Who was the better writer?

And why? These are becoming age-old questions as waves of readers discover their works afresh. Is there anything new to be said and can

there possibly be ten new things? That's the challenge I put to my friend Mike

the president of the Literature Supporters Club the great Hemingway Fitzgerald debate today on the History of Literature. the The publishing industry is a system.

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