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Finkella

Finkella

I am above all else a reader. I am always in the middle of two to three books with four waiting to move up my list. I love to cook, I bake and make every recipe I can get my hands on. If I'm not in a park absorbed in a book, I am in the kitchen making a mess.

I am now deciding between graduate school for creative writing or culinary... more »
  • Binghamton/ NYC, Ne
  • member since September 29 2009

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  • Jason R.

    Jason R. says

    Partially a nod to Updike, partially a nod to A&P itself- a dying iconic chain that I worked for as a teenager, and partially to New Orleans where that particular store is located on Bourbon Street (at least I think it is still there). Did Dorothy Parker write the short story called "Like That"?

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jason R.

    Jason R. says

    Thanks for adding me as a friend. I like your avatar- it reminds me of a 1920's flapper.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Nick is the quintessential 'Good Guy' as well as being the isolated, independant observer - 'the Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony'. Although we all know in our own worlds (and dislike) the 'Toms', the 'Daisies' (maybe we pity her........) and the 'Jordans' (they're all around us - just look at your 'friends' and acquaintances), yet we all identify with Nick......... I wonder why?

    Most authors appear in their own books (they say that Daisy is Fitzgerald's lost love, Ginevra King......... I wonder if that's true?), is Nick really Fitzgerald?

    I sometimes think of Fitzgerald's THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ when I read THE GREAT GATSBY - there are elements there...........

    I think a word for Fitzgerald's writing in THE GREAT GATSBY is ...................... pellucid.

    Your Avatar is positively Gatsbian............. Do you know Radio Dismuke and their music of this period? http://www.dismuke.org/radio/

    Regards, Michael

    Regards, Michael

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    All those reviews and you only joined yesterday?????????

    You're a better man than I am!

    Do you identify with anybody in THE GREAT GATSBY?

    Regards, Michael

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )


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