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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">September 17th – 4:30 p.m., Master’s Tea, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">R. Clifton Spargo talks about Scott and Zelda’s last trip together, to Cuba in 1939, what we know and what we
don’t know about it, and reads from <i>Beautiful Fools, The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">R. Clifton Spargo reads from
<i>Beautiful fools</i> followed by Q&A and book signing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#101010">Briefly, here's some of the summer<a href="http://beautifulfoolsthenovel.com/press-and-praise" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003EC4;text-decoration:none"> buzz</span></a> around <i>Beautiful
Fools</i> in its first months. The novel has been strongly reviewed in <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/saving-zelda-fitzgerald.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#0028BA;text-decoration:none">The New Yorker</span></i></a>, <i>The
Washington Post</i>, <i>Boston Globe</i>, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323335404578444572229448196.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#003EC4;text-decoration:none">Wall Street Journal</span></i></a>, the <a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2013/05/the_great_gatsby_in_cuba_autho.php" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#0028BA;text-decoration:none">Miami
New Times</span></i></a>, and </span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:#FFFFCC">TLS</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#101010">, which said: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1A1A1A"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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into a portrait of marriage.’</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1A1A1A">Other</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#101010"> prominent features
include <i>The Huffington Post, British Vogue</i>, <i>Harper’s Bazaar</i>, <i>The Chicago Tribune</i>, <i>The Guardian,</i> and the <i>London Sunday Time.</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send
the full text of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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