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Book Review: A second look at 'The Great Gatsby'

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 ...
Long Island Press

The Great Gatsby’s 100th birthday: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100 on April 10. A century later, it is invoked to help make sense of a world that still confuses ...
NPR

100 years of 'The Great Gatsby'

For 100 years, "The Great Gatsby" has inspired generations of authors and readers alike. Fans of the novel share what the storied classic means to them. F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic "The ...
CBS News

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100

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 ...
WUNC

100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America

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 ...
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'The Great Gatsby': Who was he and why does he still matter 100 years later?

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling "Trimalchio in West Egg." Would we still be talking about it if he had? But he ...
NPR

High school teachers reflect on 100 years of 'The Great Gatsby'

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with two educators about teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby 100 years after its publication. We're getting close to the end of this evening's show, ...
Star Tribune

Are you ready for ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but he’s a woman?

“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 Conversation

The Great Gatsby at 100: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America

Alexander Howard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Minnesota Daily

100 years of ‘The Great Gatsby’

A hundred years after its original publication, places across the Twin Cities are celebrating “The Great Gatsby” and its St. Paul-born author F. Scott Fitzgerald. In honor of its centennial ...
CounterPunch

The Great Gatsby at 100: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Class Consciousness Masterpiece

“The idea that we’re the greatest people in the world because we have the most money in the world is ridiculous. Wait until this wave of prosperity is over! Wait ten or fifteen years! Wait until the ...