Pt. 1. The search for home. St. Paul boy
Fitzgerald's romance with the south
Pt. 2: Love, money, and class. "This side of paradise": Fitzgerald's coming of age novel
Possessions in "the Great Gatsby": Reading Gatsby closely
The trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby closely
Money and marriage in Fitzgerald's stories
A short history of "Tender is the night"
Pt. 3. Fitzgerald and his times. Fitzgerald's nonfiction
The crisis of "The Crack-up"
Fitzgerald's political development
Pt. 4. Requiem. A death in Hollywood: Fitzgerald remembered.
Ernest Hemingway: Pt.5. Getting started. Hemingway of "The star"
Pt.6. The craftsman at work. "A very short story" as therapy
Preparing for the end of "A canary for one"
The averted gaze in Hemingway's fiction
Pt.7. Hemingway's morality of compensation
Humor as a measure of character
"A farewell to arms" as love story
Frederic's escape and the pose of passivity
Pt.8. Censorship. Censoring "A farewell to arms"
Protecting the troops from Hemingway: an episode in censorship
Pt. 9: Literature and politics. The last great cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writing
Pt.10: Last things. Hemingway and suicide
Hemingway and fame.