The Crack-Up

• "The Crack-Up" (originally Esquire magazine, February 1936) • "Pasting It Together" (originally Esquire magazine, March 1936) • "Handle With Care" (originally Esquire magazine, April 1936) :collected together under the title The Crack-Up in the book The book also includes other essays by Fitzgerald and positive evaluations of his work by Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, and John Peale Bishop, plus letters from Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, and Edith Wharton in 1925 praising Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Wilson compiled and edited the collection of Fitzgerald's essays so as to "make an autobiographical sequence which vividly puts on record his state of mind and his point of view during the later years of his life". ==Reception==

Upon initial publication, the essays were poorly received and many reviewers were openly critical, particularly of Fitzgerald's personal revelations and his admission of his pessimistic outlook. == Legacy ==

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze adopted and further conceptualized the term crack from "The Crack-Up" in The Logic of Sense (1969).{{cite book ==References==