My Selection — “Babylon Revisited”

A short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Moulin Rouge in Paris. Photo used by permission. Lanis Rossi.

Let’s first contextualize this amazing story

It’s 1931. The Great Depression has not only depressed the world markets — the “Lords of Finance” having bankrupted the word — but Fitzgerald was also depressed. The King of the Jazz Age was now dethroned and his royal subject matter — obsolete.