This Side of Paradise Resources

Websites

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society

Hear that, folks? The dude's got himself his own society.

F. Scott Fitzgerald at Cornell University Online

Yeah, the guy never went to Cornell. But sometimes you're so good that everyone wants a piece of you.

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival

Try to catch it next year if it's near your neighborhood. It's been running for eighteen years and will probably keep going for a while.

Articles and Interviews

"With College Men"

The New York Times gives you a quick and dirty rundown of what This Side of Paradise is all about and why you should care.

Mastering the Muse

This awesome article explains how F. Scott Fitzgerald published This Side of Paradise to impress Zelda Sayre, an ex-girlfriend who'd dumped him shortly before. Sure enough, she decided to marry him after he got famous.

The Other Side of Paradise

This old interview with Fitzgerald shows just how brutal his life could be in spite of the fame and fortune that This Side of Paradise won for him.

Video

YouTube review of This Side of Paradise

If you don't watch it, you'll never know whether you agree with it.

Another Book Review

Here's another review in case that first one didn't sit right.

This Side of Paradise Summary

It'd be sweet if all English classes did projects like this one.

Audio

This Side of Paradise Audiobook

For when your peepers are feeling a little tired.

Full Version of Audiobook

In all its nine-hour-and-forty-five-minute glory!

Images

Fitzgerald Young

Fitzy would have only been a little older than this when he wrote This Side of Paradise.

Vampire Hair

Apparently, Fitzgerald went through a Dracula phase in his later life.

Zelda

And here's the young woman Fitzgerald was trying to impress when he published This Side of Paradise. It must have worked, because she married him immediately after he became famous.