The Oracle of Our Unease Sarah Churchwell The New York Review of Books October 8, 2020 Issue 1. In March 2020, a letter supposedly written by F. Scott Fitzgerald while “quarantined in 1920 in the south of France during the Spanish influenza outbreak” was shared on social media and quickly went viral, appropriately enough. It opens with a description of the “limpid, dreary day, hung as in a baske..