F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story collection “Flappers and Philosophers” (1920) came on the heels of his landmark debut, “This Side of Paradise.” Filled with the thoroughly modern characters that populate Fitzgerald’s novels, these short works include “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Ice Palace,” and “The Offshore Pirate”. The themes of aspiration and obsessive attraction that characterize Fitzgerald’s masterpiece “The Great Gatsby” are explored in depth in these finely-honed American tales.