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Tag Archives: The Great Gatsby
10th Grade English: A Tribute to The Crud
His name was Mr. Crothers, and we called him “The Crud”, or just “Crud”. We called him that to his face. It was a term of endearment, if you can believe it. We loved him. Class would be near its … Continue reading
Book Questionnaire Full of Shame, Loathing and Lying
I can’t remember where I initially found this questionnaire, but in re-doing my Categories I found the questions saved in Drafts. I had obviously seen them somewhere, and wanted to answer them eventually. Thought I’d bring it out now. Haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Billy Budd, By the Lake, Charles Dickens, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Hopeful Monsters, John McGahern, Paul Zindel, Philip K. Dick, Richard Bach, Ryszard Kapuściński, The Bridge Across Forever, The End of the Affair, The Great Gatsby, The Pigman, The Shipping News, War and Peace
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Happy birthday to “The Great Gatsby” – which came out today, in 1925
First edition of “The Great Gatsby” 1940 letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to editor Maxwell Perkins (who had edited The Great Gatsby): Would the 25-cent press keep Gatsby in the public eye – or is the book unpopular? Has it … Continue reading
“the loneliness of the long-distance literary editor”
A piece that is of great interest to me now in my life (and I had somehow missed it although James Wolcott is one of my regular destination pitstops on the Web): Long-distance literary editors and the whole process of … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald!
So you see that old libel that we were cynics and skeptics was nonsense from the beginning. On the contrary we were the great believers. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “My Generation” F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on this day in … Continue reading
The Books: “The Great Gatsby” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: The Great Gatsby – by F. Scott Fitzgerald Strangely enough, I did note in my head that yesterday was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday – I was just too busy to re-post my birthday tribute to … Continue reading
Edits on Gatsby
A wonderful post on the revisions F. Scott Fitzgerald made in The Great Gatsby – a fascinating look at his artistic process.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, Wuthering Heights
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A Must-Read
At least if you 1. Love Michael Chabon (like I do – his braggy wife notwithstanding) 2. Have an interest in the art and craft of writing … Here Chabon writes about his process writing his first novel Mysteries of … Continue reading
Revisiting Gatsby
The last time I read The Great Gatsby was in 10th grade. We had to read it. This book did not go the way of some other books I had to read in high school (