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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we’re ruined, Look closer…and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the “ungettable” Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn’t wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner’s, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.

What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel—and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera—where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.

Everything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby’s parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous—sometimes infamous—husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott’s, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda’s irresistible story as she herself might have told it. 

 

 

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

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Jay-Z & Kanye West performing their ‘Watch The Throne’ concert in Pittsburgh (Consol Energy Center) on 27th Nov, 2011.

Kanye West (Yeezy) and Jay-Z (Hov) put on a show with a quiet high production value with their latest tour. Collectively called ‘The Throne’, Kanye and Jay performed on two giant cubes (with giant LCD walls) which rose and lowered during various parts of the concert. The concert had one of the most colourful laser light spectacles (Including making an American flag in mid air). Going over a long list of hits, the Throne performed nearly 40 songs, including the same encore song 4 times.

For more photos, check out the set : Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne Concert

Set List for the Jay-Z / Kanye West Concert :

* H.A.M, * Who Gon’ Stop Me, * Otis, * Welcome to the Jungle, * Gotta Have It, * Where I’m From,

* Ni**a What? Ni**a Who?, * Can’t Tell Me Nothing, * Flashing Lights, * Jesus Walks,

* Diamonds are Forever, * Public Service Announcement, * U Don’t Know, * Run This Town

* Monster, * Power, * Made in America, * New Day, * Hard Knock Life, * Izzo (H.O.V.A.),

* Empire State of Mind, * Runaway, * Heartless, * Stronger, * On to the Next One,

* Dirt Off Your Shoulder, * I Just Wanna Love You, * That’s My Bitch, * Good Life,

* Touch the Sky, * All of the Lights, * Big Pimpin’, * Gold Digger, * 99 Problems,

* No Church in the Wild, * Lift Off, * Ni**as in Paris

Encore: * Ni**as in Paris (3 times)