Join us for Speed Reading Book Club, a book discussion inspired by both special exhibitions and artworks in the Speed’s permanent collection! You can find copies of all the Book Club books in the Museum Store.

Speed Reading Book Club is free with admission and will be in person.

Book: Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
Exhibition: Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939 – (March 29 – June 22, 2025), among other creative women, the exhibition features the authors: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, May Sarton, Kay Boyle, and Anaïs Nin

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald | Goodreads

One of the great literary curios of the 20th century, Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by Zelda Fitzgerald. During the years when her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night—which many critics consider his masterpiece—Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story. The novel strangely parallels events from her husband’s life, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald and his work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story—centered upon the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina—that captures the spirit of an era.