Gatsby: Death of an Irishman
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Gatsby: Death of an Irishman (out now!); F. Scott Fitzgerald: Under the Red, White and Blue (play in development), Crowdfunding the Revolution (screenplay on Michael Collins). www.myposg.com
Pinned
Launch of 'Gatsby: Death of an Irishman' at the wonderful Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie).
Thanks to Ronan McGreevy for launching the book and to everyone in @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social for their hard work
Not sure where my smile went in the photos!
#gatsby100 #thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald
Thanks to Ronan McGreevy for launching the book and to everyone in @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social for their hard work
Not sure where my smile went in the photos!
#gatsby100 #thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald
Never thought I would be on a billboard outside the Royal Dublin Society!
It was enjoyable discussing with Gráinne Hurley the surprising connections between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mary Lavin, and their relationships with @newyorker.com, prepared and moderated by @ronanmcgreevy.bsky.social.
#DBF25
It was enjoyable discussing with Gráinne Hurley the surprising connections between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mary Lavin, and their relationships with @newyorker.com, prepared and moderated by @ronanmcgreevy.bsky.social.
#DBF25
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Never thought I would be on a billboard outside the Royal Dublin Society!
It was enjoyable discussing with Gráinne Hurley the surprising connections between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mary Lavin, and their relationships with @newyorker.com, prepared and moderated by @ronanmcgreevy.bsky.social.
#DBF25
It was enjoyable discussing with Gráinne Hurley the surprising connections between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mary Lavin, and their relationships with @newyorker.com, prepared and moderated by @ronanmcgreevy.bsky.social.
#DBF25
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For the week that's in it, we're getting fiercely nostalgic about our President. Here is a photo of President Higgins with our author Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in the Áras and a copy of his book, 'Crowdfunding the Revolution.'
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
For the week that's in it, we're getting fiercely nostalgic about our President. Here is a photo of President Higgins with our author Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in the Áras and a copy of his book, 'Crowdfunding the Revolution.'
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Great opportunity to understand America literary connectivity.
Delighted to see former @irishstewpodcast.com guest @posg1.bsky.social featured. Patrick has written an exceptional book on #ScottFitzgerald and his conflicted Irish identity
#Dublin #SpéirGhorm
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
Delighted to see former @irishstewpodcast.com guest @posg1.bsky.social featured. Patrick has written an exceptional book on #ScottFitzgerald and his conflicted Irish identity
#Dublin #SpéirGhorm
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
Great Irish Voices - Dublin Book Festival
Join us to explore two books illuminating great voices from Irish American history. Gratefully and Affectionately: Mary Lavin and the New Yorker (New Island) by Gráinne Hurley gives fascinating insigh...
dublinbookfestival.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Great opportunity to understand America literary connectivity.
Delighted to see former @irishstewpodcast.com guest @posg1.bsky.social featured. Patrick has written an exceptional book on #ScottFitzgerald and his conflicted Irish identity
#Dublin #SpéirGhorm
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
Delighted to see former @irishstewpodcast.com guest @posg1.bsky.social featured. Patrick has written an exceptional book on #ScottFitzgerald and his conflicted Irish identity
#Dublin #SpéirGhorm
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
Dublin Book Festival!
Sunday, November 9, 1pm.
Gráinne Hurley and Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in conversation with Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy.
Great voices from Irish American history: Mary Lavin and F. Scott Fitzgerald
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
#DBF25
Sunday, November 9, 1pm.
Gráinne Hurley and Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in conversation with Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy.
Great voices from Irish American history: Mary Lavin and F. Scott Fitzgerald
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
#DBF25
Great Irish Voices - Dublin Book Festival
Join us to explore two books illuminating great voices from Irish American history. Gratefully and Affectionately: Mary Lavin and the New Yorker (New Island) by Gráinne Hurley gives fascinating insigh...
dublinbookfestival.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Dublin Book Festival!
Sunday, November 9, 1pm.
Gráinne Hurley and Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in conversation with Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy.
Great voices from Irish American history: Mary Lavin and F. Scott Fitzgerald
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
#DBF25
Sunday, November 9, 1pm.
Gráinne Hurley and Patrick O'Sullivan Greene in conversation with Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy.
Great voices from Irish American history: Mary Lavin and F. Scott Fitzgerald
dublinbookfestival.com/event/great-...
#DBF25
“… Blaine goes to Princeton from a small town in the Midwest. Beneath the spires and gargoyles he finds lyric poetry and erudite friends. The novel instilled in me a romantic but earnest longing to get an old-school education.”
- Shilo Brooks
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- Shilo Brooks
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Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me
Shiloh Brooks explains why he’s launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“… Blaine goes to Princeton from a small town in the Midwest. Beneath the spires and gargoyles he finds lyric poetry and erudite friends. The novel instilled in me a romantic but earnest longing to get an old-school education.”
- Shilo Brooks
www.thefp.com/p/reading-sa...
- Shilo Brooks
www.thefp.com/p/reading-sa...
[The] work blends history, biography and literary analysis, offering what he calls “a story of American identity as much as the American Dream.”
Chrsity Hinko, Long Island Press.
longislandpress.com/2025/09/29/g...
#thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald
Chrsity Hinko, Long Island Press.
longislandpress.com/2025/09/29/g...
#thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald
Patrick O’Sullivan Greene explores Fitzgerald’s identity
Patrick O'Sullivan Greene shares insights from his study of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Irish roots behind "The Great Gatsby."
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October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
[The] work blends history, biography and literary analysis, offering what he calls “a story of American identity as much as the American Dream.”
Chrsity Hinko, Long Island Press.
longislandpress.com/2025/09/29/g...
#thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald
Chrsity Hinko, Long Island Press.
longislandpress.com/2025/09/29/g...
#thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald
Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | 100 Years Later, ‘Gatsby’ Still Reveals Lasting Lessons.
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@kcstudiomag.bsky.social
See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | 100 Years Later, ‘Gatsby’ Still Reveals Lasting Lessons – KC STUDIO
Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, years before their complicated friendship began in Paris, spent months in the Kansas City area at the very same time.
kcstudio.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | 100 Years Later, ‘Gatsby’ Still Reveals Lasting Lessons.
kcstudio.org/100-years-la...
@kcstudiomag.bsky.social
kcstudio.org/100-years-la...
@kcstudiomag.bsky.social
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Easily my favorite story I've ever written. On Croke Park in Dublin, its place in Irish culture and history, the wonderful sport of hurling—and oh yeah, the NFL being played there this weekend. www.si.com/nfl/steelers...
There’s No Better International Venue for the Steelers Than Croke Park
When Pittsburgh faces the Vikings in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Ireland, it’ll do so in a historic venue that the Rooney family helped renovate.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Easily my favorite story I've ever written. On Croke Park in Dublin, its place in Irish culture and history, the wonderful sport of hurling—and oh yeah, the NFL being played there this weekend. www.si.com/nfl/steelers...
During the centennial of The Great Gatsby, it is fitting that the Minnesota Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers clash in Croke Park in Week 4 of the NFL.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in Saint Paul, MN, was a football fanatic.
A 🧵 on Fitzgerald's love of American Football.
#Steelers #Vikings
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in Saint Paul, MN, was a football fanatic.
A 🧵 on Fitzgerald's love of American Football.
#Steelers #Vikings
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby evening on BBC 4 from 21.30.
A sandwich of interesting documentaries and a dodgy TV film from 2000 featuring Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway.
Preceded by the classic 'Brief Encounter' film.
www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0...
A sandwich of interesting documentaries and a dodgy TV film from 2000 featuring Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway.
Preceded by the classic 'Brief Encounter' film.
www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0...
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
An F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby evening on BBC 4 from 21.30.
A sandwich of interesting documentaries and a dodgy TV film from 2000 featuring Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway.
Preceded by the classic 'Brief Encounter' film.
www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0...
A sandwich of interesting documentaries and a dodgy TV film from 2000 featuring Paul Rudd as Nick Carraway.
Preceded by the classic 'Brief Encounter' film.
www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0...
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My new article uncovers Fitzgerald's overlooked colonial-era Irish immigrant ancestor
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My new article uncovers Fitzgerald's overlooked colonial-era Irish immigrant ancestor
An impressive lineup of events to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby at Meadowridge Library, MADISON, WI.
www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/check-it-out...
www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-09...
www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/check-it-out...
www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-09...
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby at Meadowridge Library this Fall
MADISON, WI – The Great Gatsby by F.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An impressive lineup of events to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby at Meadowridge Library, MADISON, WI.
www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/check-it-out...
www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-09...
www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/check-it-out...
www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-09...
Jake Gyllenhaal reading ‘The Great Gatsby' is revelatory, in particular his ability to bring out the desperate heat of the summer.
“Hot!” said the conductor to familiar faces. “Some weather!… Hot!… Hot!… Hot!… Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it… ?”
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“Hot!” said the conductor to familiar faces. “Some weather!… Hot!… Hot!… Hot!… Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it… ?”
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...
The 11 Best Celebrity-Narrated Audiobooks, From Tom Hardy Doing ‘1984’ to Jake Gyllenhaal's ‘The Great Gatsby’
Yes actors really can read (and quite well, it turns out)
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September 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Jake Gyllenhaal reading ‘The Great Gatsby' is revelatory, in particular his ability to bring out the desperate heat of the summer.
“Hot!” said the conductor to familiar faces. “Some weather!… Hot!… Hot!… Hot!… Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it… ?”
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...
“Hot!” said the conductor to familiar faces. “Some weather!… Hot!… Hot!… Hot!… Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it… ?”
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...
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Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris
Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris
Washington Irving was a native New Yorker who had no known connection with Kilkenny
www.irishtimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris
Podcast playlist for F. Scott Fitzgerald fans.
59 hours of audio that I used writing Gatsby: Death of an Irishman.
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59 hours of audio that I used writing Gatsby: Death of an Irishman.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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September 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Podcast playlist for F. Scott Fitzgerald fans.
59 hours of audio that I used writing Gatsby: Death of an Irishman.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3i0...
59 hours of audio that I used writing Gatsby: Death of an Irishman.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3i0...
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📣 New Episode - Hear Joe Kennedy III on Irish Stew!
Learn about Northern Ireland's inspiring leadership, lessons for #USPolitics, and the Kennedy legacy in community service. 🎙️
www.irishstewpodcast.com/jk3
#IrishPodcast #Podcast #USPol #SpéirGhorm @joekennedyiii.bsky.social
Learn about Northern Ireland's inspiring leadership, lessons for #USPolitics, and the Kennedy legacy in community service. 🎙️
www.irishstewpodcast.com/jk3
#IrishPodcast #Podcast #USPol #SpéirGhorm @joekennedyiii.bsky.social
Joe Kennedy III: Politics, Peace & Public Service - Belfast, Boston & Beyond
In something of an epilogue to our “Lost in Belfast” series, former U.S. Congressman and U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland Joseph Kennedy III joins Irish Stew …
www.irishstewpodcast.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📣 New Episode - Hear Joe Kennedy III on Irish Stew!
Learn about Northern Ireland's inspiring leadership, lessons for #USPolitics, and the Kennedy legacy in community service. 🎙️
www.irishstewpodcast.com/jk3
#IrishPodcast #Podcast #USPol #SpéirGhorm @joekennedyiii.bsky.social
Learn about Northern Ireland's inspiring leadership, lessons for #USPolitics, and the Kennedy legacy in community service. 🎙️
www.irishstewpodcast.com/jk3
#IrishPodcast #Podcast #USPol #SpéirGhorm @joekennedyiii.bsky.social
'... if you love poetry, the language of [The Great] Gatsby is captivating. I still read the book every couple of years for the beauty of the language. It’s sublime. I’ve read everything he wrote, losing myself in his romantic, bittersweet dreamland.'
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tinyurl.com/55sp7c57
Culture That Made Me: Fergal Keane of the BBC on Cork, Keats, and Vietnam
In advance of his visit to UCC, Fergal Keane reveals some of his touchstone influences
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September 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
'... if you love poetry, the language of [The Great] Gatsby is captivating. I still read the book every couple of years for the beauty of the language. It’s sublime. I’ve read everything he wrote, losing myself in his romantic, bittersweet dreamland.'
tinyurl.com/55sp7c57
tinyurl.com/55sp7c57
Éamon de Valera: Let's clear up the myths of his time in America!
A 🧵 from "Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence".
#devdoc #devalera #IrishHistory
A 🧵 from "Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence".
#devdoc #devalera #IrishHistory
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Éamon de Valera: Let's clear up the myths of his time in America!
A 🧵 from "Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence".
#devdoc #devalera #IrishHistory
A 🧵 from "Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence".
#devdoc #devalera #IrishHistory
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For those interested in my new book on C.S. Lewis's Irish background, you can get 30% off if you use the discount code SNHSS30 on the Springer/Palgrave Macmillan site between now and 30 Sept. 2025. Here's the link:
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I'm very excited that my new book, IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan! The book is quite dear (!) but there is a 25% discount going till tomorrow (21/8). Just use the discount code SNB2S25 at the following site:
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September 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For those interested in my new book on C.S. Lewis's Irish background, you can get 30% off if you use the discount code SNHSS30 on the Springer/Palgrave Macmillan site between now and 30 Sept. 2025. Here's the link:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
“The one thing that explains more than anything about me is the fact that I’m Irish. And, strangely enough, it is something that all the writers who have attempted to explain me and my work have overlooked. "
- Eugene O’Neill
Irish Times Article, 27 April 2016.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
- Eugene O’Neill
Irish Times Article, 27 April 2016.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
‘The fact that I’m Irish’: Eugene O’Neill, US playwright and Irish revolutionary
President Michael D Higgins, Gabriel Byrne and Shivaun O’Casey discuss Eugene O’Neill with his biographer Robert Dowling, who traces the writer’s pride in his Irish ancestry
www.irishtimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“The one thing that explains more than anything about me is the fact that I’m Irish. And, strangely enough, it is something that all the writers who have attempted to explain me and my work have overlooked. "
- Eugene O’Neill
Irish Times Article, 27 April 2016.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
- Eugene O’Neill
Irish Times Article, 27 April 2016.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
View of The Great Gatsby from Down Under.
Suzanne Hill on Weekend Nightlife discussing The Great Gatsby with Dr Alexander Howard, University of Sydney.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Suzanne Hill on Weekend Nightlife discussing The Great Gatsby with Dr Alexander Howard, University of Sydney.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The Great Gatsby' is still great 100 years later - ABC listen
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 'The Great Gatsby' may be a century old, but it hasn't aged a day.
www.abc.net.au
September 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
View of The Great Gatsby from Down Under.
Suzanne Hill on Weekend Nightlife discussing The Great Gatsby with Dr Alexander Howard, University of Sydney.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Suzanne Hill on Weekend Nightlife discussing The Great Gatsby with Dr Alexander Howard, University of Sydney.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Tickets are now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’. The conference will take place @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. For booking and more information use the link below.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Tickets are now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’. The conference will take place @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. For booking and more information use the link below.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...
SUMMER READING LIST (not to late)!
'We are grateful to authors from Ireland who donate their books, their music performances and even screenings of their films.' - Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco.
www.pgil.mc/lectures/sum...
'We are grateful to authors from Ireland who donate their books, their music performances and even screenings of their films.' - Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco.
www.pgil.mc/lectures/sum...
Summer reading
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August 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
SUMMER READING LIST (not to late)!
'We are grateful to authors from Ireland who donate their books, their music performances and even screenings of their films.' - Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco.
www.pgil.mc/lectures/sum...
'We are grateful to authors from Ireland who donate their books, their music performances and even screenings of their films.' - Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco.
www.pgil.mc/lectures/sum...
THE GREAT GATSBY (1949) with Alan Ladd on Blu-ray.
'What draws me most into the newly minted physical copy of The Great Gatsby is the audio commentary from author and film historian Paul Talbot.' - Cortlyn Kelly.
www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/the_...
@undertheradar.bsky.social
'What draws me most into the newly minted physical copy of The Great Gatsby is the audio commentary from author and film historian Paul Talbot.' - Cortlyn Kelly.
www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/the_...
@undertheradar.bsky.social
The Great Gatsby
Paramount Pictures' 1949 remake of The Great Gatsby is the first accessible reimagining of the classic novel.
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August 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
THE GREAT GATSBY (1949) with Alan Ladd on Blu-ray.
'What draws me most into the newly minted physical copy of The Great Gatsby is the audio commentary from author and film historian Paul Talbot.' - Cortlyn Kelly.
www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/the_...
@undertheradar.bsky.social
'What draws me most into the newly minted physical copy of The Great Gatsby is the audio commentary from author and film historian Paul Talbot.' - Cortlyn Kelly.
www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/the_...
@undertheradar.bsky.social
A.O. Scott, critic at large for the New York Times book review, discusses how and why The Great Gatsby became a staple of the American literary canon.
The Great Gatsby' Turns 100, Old Sport (Classics Week) www.wnyc.org/story/the-gr... @wnyc.org
The Great Gatsby' Turns 100, Old Sport (Classics Week) www.wnyc.org/story/the-gr... @wnyc.org
The Great Gatsby' Turns 100, Old Sport (Classics Week) | All Of It | WNYC
This year marks the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, widely considered by many to be one of the greatest American novels ever written. A.O. Scott, critic ...
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August 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A.O. Scott, critic at large for the New York Times book review, discusses how and why The Great Gatsby became a staple of the American literary canon.
The Great Gatsby' Turns 100, Old Sport (Classics Week) www.wnyc.org/story/the-gr... @wnyc.org
The Great Gatsby' Turns 100, Old Sport (Classics Week) www.wnyc.org/story/the-gr... @wnyc.org