Tweet: The New HOWL. Fitzgerald Crack's Up. "The Crack-Up", part one of The Crack-Up, by F.
Scott Fitzgerald, as originally published in Esquire, February 1936. Originally published as a three-part series in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Esquire Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work -- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside -- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don’t show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within -- that you don’t feel until it’s too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.
Bukowski for president.