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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.