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Bruccoli By Gary Bracke He is a professor of English at \ authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald and written or edited close to 40 s literature. He is Matthew J. Brucc Bruccoli, a graduate of Yale University of Virginia, has taught ? now teaches graduate English cours at USC, he has written or edited 25 be it, he's had a "remarkably product fully recognize that my debts to th siderable. Without the research helj the 25 books I've done here. It's a vc to be." All of Bruccoli's published booki studies. Most of these are about F John O'Hara. For example, John O Bibliography, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fitzgerald in His Own Time just to n< BRUCCOLI SAID HE first becam authors "by reading them in collet that there were other "young mi Another = W W * ^ ^ Gi yc Robbins E I CO nov^l ? - - ? - in fic be in !.?-~W4*? JCTUi* JWyMU* W9 VUfSTOW C>nC^)utr^^|ii a litercxrj. it literature.' that there v as much a: He first d JSC. He is a leading saw a book John O'Hara. He has wanted to tudies of American In writini oli. all over E University and the research w it USC since 1967. He stance, in es. During his decade traveled t< ions, as uruccou puts zgerald sp< ive decade at USC. I there. Thro e university are con- many ceiel >, I couln't have done discovered sry good place for me nicer they j have been literary BRUCCO . Scott Fitzgerald or Fitzgerald 'Hara: A DUcriptive nrvi n mui Ledger and F. Scott work is th? uneafew. Some of Ernest, Th e interested in these otters of. je" and by realizing what doe in who cared about couple of n By Gary BrackeU whi Mint D?? First by Harold Robbln*; Pock?t, V 5 bu> Breams Die First, Harold Hoi >bbins's latest novel is probably intc 9 best yet. tha Dreams Die First is the story of "M ireth Branden, an unemployed 41 ung man who eventually winds the i as the publisher of "Macho" ma agazine, the magazine "for the whi asculine mystique." T The first half of Robbins' novel is sell ivoted to Gareth's life while he is of 1 illecting unemployment checks ricl id having an affair with Verita, ind e girl at the unemployment of- owi e. Gareth has other problems cha sides being unemployed. For "M stance, he owes money to ( -'^Br -" "Columbia" ^ are tra<lemarks of CB n?????i ? I authority ' Before that, Bruccoli said he did not realize vere other young people who enjoyed literature s he did. ecided that he wanted to write the "first time I At that moment, he knew that "someday I write these things." g and editing his books, Bruccoli has traveled Europe and the United States in doing his ork. He goes where the sources are. For inwriting about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ha h?? a Hollywood numerous times because Fitent the last three-and-a-half years of his life ugh his travels and research, Bruccoli has met >rities. Bruccoli said about these people, "I've that to a large extent the bigger they are the are." LI'S FAVORITE writer is Fitzfferald. He likes because he can always return to Fitzgerald's "fresh enthusiasm . . . fresh pleasure ... his i most meaningful . . . richest." Bruccoli's more recent books are Scott and e Notebooks of F. Scott Fitigerald and The John O'Hara. s this writer plan for the future? "To write a lore books." tergan, a mafia-type character, built around his > also happens to be his uncle. But, how does a 1 ftth his uncle's help, Gareth of his life was i 's a small newspaper, "The cess? In Gareth lywood Express," and turns it himself into a i a "PI ay boy "type magazine control, t out-sells all its competitor. It is acho." Macho" is the magazine "for | masculine mystique." Hie H cho man is "willing to fight for 9 WW it he wants. I AS "he magazine becomes the best iing of its kind. With the success I ^T"1 the magazine, Gareth becomes I 8"$ i and expands his publishing ustry until he becomes the B _ ler of a nightclub and cassino I ? in that is run under the I ML acho" philosophy. I Jareth now has a private empire ^ ^ = I For 1 ISat. Dec 7f llli?':I j I Refr 2 1 Cam f j Guest J Ml? I I Provoc I! Rla H ^ | IS Inc ? 1978 CBS Inc. M publishing idea. ? e/Vn? 1 nan who for most Har<jld Ro >oor, handle sue- n Howe^ 's case, he turns dually graj man with little J*?88011 ma his more fail e RO lendai rhe Christmas Disco . 9, 1978 8:00 prr ee To First 25 merr jc To All other men $1.00 Non-m em be ates House Social F eshments will be s Ban que 12,1978 7:30 til >11 C Pn/Mirt /<>?<? *? rw w IWV/III VI pd I U I Speaker Coach Har USC Gamecocks ative Entertaining and C< Make a Date Foi ck History 1 February 11-17, 19 mmammmammmmmBmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmKmmmmKmmmmm Bsented by The Asi cRO-American Stud Support AFR< mil imiiwn nmmmmmammmm iSMiUi Jie First is by far bbins' best-plotted yer, it is also his most phic novel and for this y even shock some of thful readers. /^/ ?xncxo V/ \ ySM r Season I i - 1:00 am ibers nbers rs ! i toom & erved. 1 It | I 10:00 I le Bldg. t old White I captivating j r Week 79 ?o. of lents kj & I