Gatsby and the Grandeur and Poverty of Eros

In a piece from last Saturday’s London Guardian, novelist Jay McInerney offered this interesting reflection on why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has become an American classic–and more than a classic: “a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream.” About the ambivalent attitude of Nick … Continue reading →

Candles and Carnival Lights

This piece by Mary Claire Kendall, appearing in today’s forbes.com, is an account of a lecture on F. Scott Fitzgerald by Charles Scribner, whose great-grandfather published The Great Gatsby in 1925, and whose father in the 1950s instigated the renaissance in appreciation of Fitzgerald’s work that continues to this day. Scribner’s lecture, entitled “From Paradise … Continue reading →