Amanda Vaill on Gerald and Sara Murphy

Published: June 7, 2021, 10 a.m.

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Amanda Vaill takes us to the French Riviera of the 1920s, drawing from her definitive book, Everybody Was So Young, to describe who Gerald and Sara Murphy were and what they meant to the artists they knew.\\xa0

Vaill discusses Fitzgerald\\u2019s poor behavior, Hemingway\\u2019s ambivalence to the rich, and Gerald\\u2019s own artistic efforts. Along the way, she suggests what gave the Murphys the enchanting quality that drew so many important figures into their circle.\\xa0

This episode was recorded on May 17, 2021.

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