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The real ‘Great Gatsby’: Meet the men who likely inspired the infamous novel
In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
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Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”?
A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.
Cheat Sheets for ‘The Great Gatsby’s’ Centennial
Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby,” the novel’s influence hasn’t exactly dimmed. From illuminating the Empire ...
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The Great Gatsby turns 100: NY students reflect on the enduring legacy of a literary classic
It’s been 100 years since The Great Gatsby was first published, and its legacy is still deeply woven into the fabric of New York City and Long Island. From its inspiration on the Gold Coast to its ...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100. What’s it like teaching it today?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it ...
18 Jazz Age Recipes for a Great Gatsby Party
In honor of the 100th birthday of The Great Gatsby, throw a party worthy of this great party novel, movie, and musical.
‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to ...
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The downfall of King Dollar
A century after its publication, the novel’s glory and brutality persist in the national psyche.
100 Years Later, NYC Will Pay Homage To a Tragic Story in One Wild Way
The book depicts a tragic love story, tons of bootleg liquor, a decadent portrait of New York City, and some of the most ...
100 years of The Great Gatsby: Echoes of the American dream in modern India
A hundred years after The Great Gatsby was published, the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock still glows — not just in ...
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Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound ...