The Great Gatsby
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The Great American Classic We’ve Been Misreading March 10, 2025
The Great Gatsby is 100 years old this year, which feels right in a way. After all those years as a perennial mainstay of the American high school English curriculum, all those Gatsby-themed flapper parties, all those valiant but ham-fisted attempts ...
The Greatness of The Great Gatsby March 10, 2025
2025 marks the centenary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. It is one of a few contenders, and perhaps the frontrunner, for the title of “the great American novel.” It was something everyone was trying to write in the 1920s and many suspected...
A Delightfully Frenetic Cult Classic March 03, 2025
Sometimes a great book just doesn’t get its due, at least at first. As many readers may know, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was initially published to a reception that ranged from lukewarm to scornful. Today, the book is considered a classic...
'The Great Gatsby' at 100 January 21, 2025
In 2004, I attended a performance of Gatz, a stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that, in addition to witty interpretations of the novel’s key scenes, featured Fitzgerald’s entire text read aloud by the actors. The performance ...
Gatsby Loses to Woody Allen April 30, 2024
Welcome to the Roaring Twenties. Of course, it’s too early to know whether the roar is college revolt or the howl from high food prices. Two years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece of the prior Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby, entered the pub...
