On Booze

Reviews

"His writing is a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartets." — Raymond Chandler

""The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the character’s does. It’s something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment." " — Taylor Swift

""Fitzgerald will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.” " — Gertrude Stein

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings." — Ernest Hemingway

"There have been many drunk writers . . . but none seems to have encapsulated the glamour of alcohol like Fitzgerald." — The New Statesman

"Every sentence is its own glittering world...For all of Dorothy Parker’s quips about cocktails and Charles Bukowski’s bromides about beer, Fitzgerald’s prose alcohol content remains unparalleled—the irony being that he was a lightweight." — Sloane Crosley, The Yale Review

"The great thing about Fitzgerald was his candor; verbal courage; simplicity. One little man with eyes really witnessing; objective in all he uttered, even about himself in a subjective slump." — Glenway Wescott, The New Republic