The FitzMuse Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
The FitzMuse Podcast is the Podcast Channel of The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum.
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K. Woodman-Maynard - Graphic Novelist and Comics Coach
https://www.woodmanmaynard.com/
K. Woodman-Maynard is graphic novelist and comics coach whose work explores themes of acceptance and self-expression.
Her best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt received starred reviews from both Kirkus, who called it "as wise and wonderful as the original," and School Library Journal, who described it as "a must for any graphic novel collection."
Her debut, an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, was called "hugely rewarding" by the The Wall Street Journal and was featured in the The New York Times, The Guardian, and Times Literary Supplement.
She graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard University and worked as a designer and animator for clients such as Capital One, Nickelodeon, and TOMS Shoes. She writes a weekly Substack newsletter, Creating Comics, where she encourages artists to create more and feel less bad about themselves in the process.
For more information on The Great Gatsby and The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, visit at
www.thefitzgeraldmusem.org
John and Maire Martello discuss Robert Redford's career and the influence of his portrayal of Gatsby in the 1974 The Great Gatsby.
For more information on The Great Gatsby and The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, visit at
www.thefitzgeraldmusem.org
David Pietrusza is an award winning historian and author of Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, and the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim.
davidpietrusza.com
Award-winning historian David Pietrusza has been called “a national treasure” and “the undisputed champion of chronicling American Presidential campaigns.” His books include studies of the 1920, 1932, 1936, 1948, and 1960 presidential elections and biographies of Theodore Roosevelt (Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal, US History), gambler Arnold Rothstein (Edgar Award finalist) and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (Casey Award winner). Pietrusza has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Voice of America, The History Channel, AMC, and ESPN. He has spoken at the JFK, FDR, Truman, and Coolidge presidential libraries, Grant and TR presidential sites, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and various universities, museums, libraries, and festivals.
For more information on The Great Gatsby and The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, visit at
www.thefitzgeraldmusem.org
Amy Goldman is an English Teacher and Founder of Teaching The Great Gatsby Group.
Discussion includes teaching The Great Gatsby, the various Gatsby films, and the joys and challenges of teaching Gatsby 100 years later. The Gatsby Old Sport Podcast Series is in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby in 1925 and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday in Sept. 1896.
For more information on The Great Gatsby and The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum visit at
www.thefitzgeraldmusem.org
Charles Scribner III discusses the publication of The Great Gatsby in 1925 and its resurgence in the 1940s, as well as his role in reviving the iconic blue Cugat cover for editions beginning in the 1980s.
For more information on Charles Scribner III charlesscribner.com/
Charles Scribner III is an American art historian, author, editor, and lecturer specializing in Baroque art, music, religion, and literature. Born in Washington, DC, and raised in New York City, he earned his BA, MFA, and PhD in art and archaeology from Princeton University. A scion of the Scribner's publishing dynasty, he worked for nearly three decades at Charles Scribner's Sons and Macmillan, rising to executive roles. Scribner has authored books on Peter Paul Rubens and Gianlorenzo Bernini, contributed to Vanity Fair and Art & Antiques, and lectured at institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives in New York City with his wife, artist Ritchie Harrison Markoe, and their two sons. The Gatsby Old Sport Podcast Series is in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby in 1925 and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday in Sept. 1896.
For more information on The Great Gatsby and The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, visit at
www.thefitzgeraldmusem.org
"The Bowl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Evan Milligan Produced and Directed by Alaina M. Doten This is a Fitz Muse Production in conjunction with the Jubilee Community Center, and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Dr. Nicole Wadsworth, President of Jones Firm.
"Love in the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Evan Milligan and Keyonta Blocker Produced and Directed by Alaina M. Doten This is a Fitz Muse Production in conjunction with the Jubilee Community Center, and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"He Thinks He's Wonderful" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Evan Milligan Produced and Directed by Alaina M. Doten This is a Fitz Muse Production in conjunction with the Jubilee Community Center, and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Freshest Boy" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Evan Milligan Produced and Directed by Alaina M. Doten This is a Fitz Muse Production in conjunction with the Jubilee Community Center, and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"A Night at the Fair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Evan Milligan Produced and Directed by Alaina M. Doten This is a Fitz Muse Production in conjunction with the Jubilee Community Center, and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Scandal Detectives" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in The Saturday Evening Post, 28 April 1928
Read by Evan Milligan Produced and Directed by Alaina M. Doten This is a Fitz Muse Production in conjunction with the Jubilee Community Center, and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Greta Lambert (Actor, Director, and former Deputy Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival) and Greg Thornton (Actor, Director, and co-founder of the Cloverdale Playhouse) discuss with Fitzgerald Museum Director Alaina Doten the fun but difficulty in reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories and dialogues. Greg also discusses the famous production of the ASF's Hamlet in which the poisoned sword broke and flew off into the audience.
"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922.
Read by Greta Lambert and Greg Thornton Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922.
Read by Greta Lambert and Greg Thornton Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"How to Live on $36,000 a Year" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in the Saturday Evening Post on April 5, 1924.
Directed and Read by Sam Wooten Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast in conjunction with the Cloverdale Playhouse made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL, NY Times Bestselling Author, Crisis Management Pro, SPY and 2022 F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize Awardee, joins Fitzgerald Museum Director Alaina Doten in discussing "Dice, Brassknuckles, and Guitar" one of the pre-Gatsby cluster of stories.
The discussion includes transition from military service to civilian life, effective use of brassknuckles and better self defense strategies for women, and the thrill of fast cars.
For more information on Clint's Ready Room and 100 Deadly Skills series visit www.clintemerson.com and The Ready Room.
For more information on Glen Doherty and how to support special operators transitioning into to civilian live visit Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation.
"Dice, Brass Knuckles and Guitar" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in Hearst's Cosmopolitan International in May 1923.
Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"Dice, Brass Knuckles and Guitar" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in Hearst's Cosmopolitan International in May 1923.
Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Danny Klecko, Poet, Author and Baker from St. Paul, Minnesota joins Fitzgerald Museum Director Alaina Doten in discussing one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's darker stories, "A Short Trip Home." Is it a ghost story? Or something else? "A Short Trip Home" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published on 17 December 1927 in The Saturday Evening Post , and in Taps at Reveille (1935).
Read by J. Scott Grinstead Directed by Sam Wooten Produced by Alaina M. Doten Additional Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast produced in conjunction with the Cloverdale Playhouse and made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"A Short Trip Home" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published on 17 December 1927 in The Saturday Evening Post , and in Taps at Reveille (1935).
Read by J. Scott Grinstead Directed by Sam Wooten Produced by Alaina M. Doten Additional Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast produced in conjunction with the Cloverdale Playhouse and made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Maire Martello (Fitzgerald Author and Playwright) and John Martello (Actor, Director, Producer , and Early Film Historian) join Fitzgerald Museum Director Dr. Doten to discuss "Our Own Movie Queen."
"Our Own Movie Queen" by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
First published in Chicago Sunday Tribune on 7 June 1925.
Read by Greta Lambert and Greg Thornton Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"Our Own Movie Queen" by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
First published in Chicago Sunday Tribune on 7 June 1925.
Read by Greta Lambert and Greg Thornton Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Maire Martello, author and co-host of the Zelda's Biscuit and Peaches Podcast, discusses Zelda's essays from the early 1920s with Fitzgerald Museum Director, Alaina Doten.
"Does a Moment of Revolt Come Sometimes to Every Married Man?" by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
First published in March 1924.
Read by Greta Lambert Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"What Became of the Flappers" by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
First published in McCalls Magazine in October 1925.
Read by Greta Lambert Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"Eulogy of the Flapper" by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
First published in Metropolitan Magazine in June 1922.
Read by Greta Lambert Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"Friend Husband's Latest" by Zelda Sayre (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald)
First published on 2 April 1922 in the New York Tribune.
Read by Greta Lambert Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Foster Dickson, author, editor and creative writing teacher, discusses Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's story "The Iceberg" with Fitzgerald Museum Director Dr. Alaina Doten.
The Iceberg was first published in 1918 after Zelda Sayre won a writing contest at Lanier High School.
Foster and Alaina also discuss the 2023-2024 Fitzgerald Writing Contest and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award.
For more information on FitzTales and the writing contests, please visit the Fitzgerald Museum website at www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org
"The Iceberg" by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
First published in 1918, Zelda Sayre won a writing competion at Lanier High Schoo for "The Iceberg."
Read by Greta Lambert Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Popular Girl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Popular Girl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Mulit-Emmy award winning producer and author Amar Shah discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" with Fitzgerald Museum Director Alaina M. Doten.
This discussion podcast was made possible by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
“May Day” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by John Martello Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
“May Day” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by John Martello Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by W. Scott Page, Bo Jinright, Jay Russell, Emily Wooten, Chris Roquemore Directed by Sam Wooten Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Produced in conjunction with the Cloverdale Playhouse.
"Porcelain and Pink" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Sam Wooten, Valorie Roberts, Dominique Taylor, and Michael Pritchard. Directed by Sam Wooten Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Lees of Happiness" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Greg Thornton and Greta Lambert Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
"The Camel's Back" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Katie Schmidt, W. Scott Page, and Chris Roquemore Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
“The Jelly Bean” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by grants from AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
“Benediction” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by a grant from AHA!
Multi-Emmy winning producer Amar Shah discusses his adaptation of Bernice Bobs Her Hair into the film short Sati Shaves Her Head.
For more info: https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/fitz-tales-flappers-and-philosophers
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Greta Lambert, Sarah Walker Thornton, and Nathan Jacobs Directed by Greg Thornton Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by a grant from AHA!
David Brown discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Head and Shoulders" and "The Cut Glass Bowl".
David Brown teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and, more recently, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. His biography Of Andrew Jackson will appear next year.
“The Cut Glass Bowl” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Wanda Battle Directed by Maire Martello Produced by Alaina M. Doten Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of Strident Trax This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by a grant from AHA!
“Head and Shoulders” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Melvin Gray Jr. and Katie Barrett
Produced by Alaina M. Doten
Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of StridentTrax
This is a FitzMuse Podcast made possible by a grant from AHA!, the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
Multi-Emmy winning producer and digital media specialist Amar Shah discusses his great love of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the timeless and cultural universality of Fitzgerald's works and The Ice Palace.
"The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Greg Thornton and Greta Lambert
Directed by Greg Thornton
Produced by Alaina M. Doten
Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of StridentTrax
A FitzMuse Production made possible by AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance
Author, Playwright, and Zelda Fitzgerald scholar, Maire Martello discusses "The Off-Shore Pirate" and the similarities of Zelda Fitzgerald as the inspiration for one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early short stories.
"The Off-Shore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Sarah Walker Thornton and W. Scott Page
Directed by Greg Thornton
Produced by Alaina M. Doten
Audio Engineering and Editing by Cope Till of StridentTrax
A FitzMuse Production made possible by AHA! The Alabama Humanities Alliance
For more info on the Fitz Tales: Flappers and Philosophers series please visit www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org