FitzTales: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.