Though no longer a literary darling, Fitzgerald published dozens of pieces in Esky’s first decade, in a variety of genres—satire, gritty personal essays, and the charming Pat Hobby stories, about a broken-down Hollywood screenwriter much like Fitzgerald himself.
Esky Essential
The Crack Up
Fitzgerald’s three-part series about his struggle with alcohol addiction. Pioneering.
The Pat Hobby Stories
Fitzgerald wrote 17 Pat Hobby stories in all, which appeared in Esquire from January 1940 through May 1941. Our founding editor Arnold Gingrich said they “last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories.”