OLD AND BUSTED: “There are no second acts in American lives.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon, 1941.
The New Hotness? “American culture is wild, irrepressible, and exuberant and full of hucksters always coming up with new ways to reinvent themselves. There’s a shamelessness to Americans that Europeans perhaps look down upon but that is a great source of creativity and excitement.”
That's right.
Similarly, NY Times fabulist Jayson Blair wrote a memoir (the aptly titled 'Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life') after he was outed.
American culture is wild, irrepressible, and exuberant and full of hucksters always coming up with new ways to reinvent… https://t.co/3n2E0wNCo1
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) August 15, 2026