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The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby

The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby

Update: 2025-01-22
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In this week’s Book Club podcast, we’re contemplating the astounding achievement of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in its 100th year. My guest is Professor Sarah Churchwell, author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Making of The Great Gatsby, as well as the introduction to Cambridge University Press’s new edition of the novel. Sarah tells me what we get wrong about this Jazz Age classic, why Fitzgerald’s antisemitism shouldn’t necessarily get him cancelled, and how Fitzgerald’s great novel traces the arc that leads from 1925 to Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
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The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby

The Book Club: what we get wrong about The Great Gatsby

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