How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America

How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America

A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’

The Great Gatsby at 100 - Washington Examiner

The Great Gatsby is possibly the greatest American novel. However, it carries the usual imprimatur of classic literature regularly assigned as homework: It’s boring.

How The Great Gatsby foreshadowed the super-rich’s transition from faceless forces to social media icons with space rockets

When Taylor Swift, herself a member of Forbes’ billionaire list, sang about ‘feelin’ so Gatsby’ in her song This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, she wasn’t just name-dropping one of literature’s most famous characters. She was tapping into a century-old cultural touchstone: the allure of wealth and excess embodied in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. One hundred years after its publication, Gatsby remains an enduring metaphor, and our tit…

One Hundred Years of Gatsby

Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Editions of The Great Gatsby—which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death—abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure By Nathan King F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final royalty check was for $13.13, making him the recipient of a double dose of bad luck. By 1940, the novel he thought to be his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, was ver…

SCPL to host ‘Great Gatsby’ centennial celebration

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” turns 100 this year, and Scott County Public Library (SCPL) will celebrate its centennial on its anniversary date in their community room Thursday, April 10, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.