The Big Time: F Scott Fitzgerald - A Staged Essay September 18, 2010

Minnesota Public Radio presents 'The Big Time: F. Scott Fitzgerald,' a staged essay by Patricia Hampl. 'The Big Time' is a staged essay with music of the period that follows Hampl's own fascination with F Scott Fitzgerald's heroic - perhaps crazy and finally heartbreaking - dream of success, his determination to make his mark and "be somebody." 'The Big Time' moves back and forth in time, using passages from his letters to his wife Zelda, to his friends (Hemingway, Edmund Wilson and others) and his notebooks. It returns finally to St Paul in later-life letters and ruminations about his early success and its abiding wounds.