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Comments for the next book?

Well, we’re quickly coming to the end of The Great Gatsby, so it’s a good time to talk about the next book. What would you like to read and discuss with a group? Browsing at a bookstore the other evening, I thought I would enjoy discovering an author I’ve never read before. Two I saw […]

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Will the real Jay Gatsby please stand up?

An excellent article titled Professor, private investigator team up in search of the real ‘Great Gatsby’, which gives a look at the man purportedly behind Fitzgerald’s title character. Some detail is given on Max von Gerlach, who Zelda Fitzgerald said was the inspiration for Jay Gatsby. However this excerpt highlights the uncertainty of that claim: […]

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Shades of the Jazz Age

A good article at the International Herald Tribune site (link is down) that ties in the history of Long Island and Fitzgerald. In “Gatsby,” Fitzgerald’s narrator and stand-in, Nick Carraway, says, “It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.” But West Egg […]

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Northanger Abbey, 1986 movie version

Screen capture of the characters (left to right) Catherine Moreland, Eleanor Tilney, Henry Tilney I watched the BBC production of Northanger Abbey this weekend and, while enjoyable, I found it a little underwhelming. While some of the story line is faithful to the book, much is missing. The biggest loss is the lack of irony […]