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Irwin makes the provocative argument, too, that the seemingly throwaway Pat Hobby stories, tales of a rapscallion screenwriter, dramatize the "authority of failure" — Fitzgerald's phrase for what his personal defeats had earned him; Hemingway, he thought, wrote with the "authority of success" — and let Fitzgerald see beyond the ideologies of his time.
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