Factotum pub crawl
November 16, 2011 peter bell
The 2005 film Factotum is based on the writings of Charles Bukowski. Whether you love him or hate him, it’s indisputable that Bukowski has had an impact on American literature. His gritty realistic writing is like a cocktail of anger, misanthropy, addiction, and occasionally, transcendence. With lines like “my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all […]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, MN
November 15, 2011 peter bell
Every era of writers has their set of literary heroes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the standouts of the Lost Generation. The man who coined the phrase “the Jazz Age” while reveling in its excesses, Fitzgerald spent much of his life in the city of St. Paul. From popturf user donkeyoti comes a […]
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Tagged f. scott fitgerald, Lost Generation, Minnesota, MN, Rice Park, saint paul, st. paul, this side of paradise, writers, Zelda
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