Fitzgerald and the Writers’ Strike

F. Scott’s last creation is a warning to the picket line

“Detailed view of early movie camera” by whatsthatpicture is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

“Most writers,” the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “look like writers whether they want to or not. It is hard to say why.”

I thought about this recently as the writers of the Writers Guild of America announced they would go on strike against their studio overlords for the…