THE PAT HOBBY STORIES (159 pp.)F. Scott FitzgeraldScribner ($3.50).
Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories with the speed of a tabloid rewrite man, and for the journeyman's unvarying reason: to satisfy a desperate and constant need for money. The legend is familiar; when dun notes piled too high during the bright, wild days with Zelda, Scott could lock himself in a room and come out next morning with a story salable at $3,500.
But by the late '30s, Fitzgerald was living on faltering nerve and occasional movie jobs. Then in 1939 he began what were to be the last of his short...