In his first few months in Paris Shirer had met the best journalists working in the city, along with artists, writers, and performers he encountered in the cabarets and in restaurants late at night. F. Scott Fitzgerald stumbled into the newsroom one night and drunkenly said, “Come on, boys. Let’s get out the goddamn paper.”
Seated at his desk, James Thurber made the introductions. The Great Gatsby had recently arrived in Paris’s bookstores, and Thurber had earlier lent Shirer his copy of the novel. Shirer loved the book and was now face to face with the author, who was well into a state of momentous drunkenness. As Shirer and the other copydesk editors worked, Fitzgerald loudly sang songs.
Source:
Wick, Steve. “His Luck Holds.” The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 19. Print.
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