Sublime

check out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of seventeen short stories featuring Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter and boozing hack trying to still make a living in Hollywood.

Another event that cheered Max was his publishing a promising new writer named Morley Callaghan, a Canadian. Callaghan had met Hemingway when their careers at the Toronto Star overlapped; then he went to

The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths—so that he could “come over” some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.