The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...
“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” is a line famously spoken by the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This year, writers are repeating the past — a lot — with ...
The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning ...
National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Dotting the ...
West Hartford writer and teacher Rob Kyff makes no secret of his love for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby.” In his new book, “Gatsby’s Secrets: The Hidden Motifs, Moments and Metaphors ...
In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I am a ...
Ninety-nine years ago, Scribner Books published then 28-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel, The Great Gatsby. Set in the 1920s on Long Island, the book follows Nick Carraway. He witnesses a ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's time in Louisville, Kentucky, particularly his experiences at Camp Taylor, subtly influenced his iconic novel "The Great Gatsby." Although Fitzgerald's stay in Louisville was ...
WHAT: Guess the secret password and step back in time to a 1920s-style speakeasy. Once inside, an F. Scott Fitzgerald expert will take you on a journey through the author's life and discuss the city’s ...
In 2022, Kyra Davis Lurie heard a story on KCRW’s “Curbed Los Angeles” about the residents of South L.A.’s West Adams Heights, nicknamed Sugar Hill after a community of wealthy Black Harlemites.