Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “I recall listening, some years ago at a dinner party in Berkeley, to a professor of English present The Last Tycoon as irrefutable proof that F. Scott Fitzgerald was a bad writer.”
The White Album by Joan Didion: “'YOU CAN TAKE Hollywood for granted like I did,' Cecilia Brady tells the reader in The Last Tycoon, 'or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand.'”
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang: “as overhyped and disappointing as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon”