The Great Gatsby 100
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Hi I'm Alan Sargeant. I'm writing a book on F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby called Odyssey of an American Dreamer. I think they call it narrative non-fiction these days. Join me in celebrating 100 years of Gatsby! www.monocledmutineer.co.uk
Oct 1923. As Scott Fitzgerald gets down to work on Gatsby, Arnold Rothstein (Meyer Wolfshiem in the novel) appears in court over the World Series Scandal. It would come to a head in May the following year. Scott's friend Ring Lardner was later said to be a key witness in the fix. #BookSky
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Oct 1923. As Scott Fitzgerald gets down to work on Gatsby, Arnold Rothstein (Meyer Wolfshiem in the novel) appears in court over the World Series Scandal. It would come to a head in May the following year. Scott's friend Ring Lardner was later said to be a key witness in the fix. #BookSky
Did Gatsby own his house or was it a rental? Well on page six of the first edition it says it was a rental. A house 'inhabited' by Mr Gatsby.
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Did Gatsby own his house or was it a rental? Well on page six of the first edition it says it was a rental. A house 'inhabited' by Mr Gatsby.
Couple of sneaky peeks inside the armed services edition of The Great Gatsby (1942-43). These are from the back of the book. Discover why the critics are still shouting about it. They were? #BookSky
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Couple of sneaky peeks inside the armed services edition of The Great Gatsby (1942-43). These are from the back of the book. Discover why the critics are still shouting about it. They were? #BookSky
Captain Martin was married to Britain's first aviatrix, Lily Irvine. Nice news item from 1913. Hope to have a piece on Lily soon. She was quite a legend.
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Captain Martin was married to Britain's first aviatrix, Lily Irvine. Nice news item from 1913. Hope to have a piece on Lily soon. She was quite a legend.
Been thinking about the publication of The Great Gatsby on Good Friday 1925. When President Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday 1865, many found it almost impossible not to find some kind of symbolic correspondence with the crucifixion, especially with the reconciliation that followed. #BookSky
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Been thinking about the publication of The Great Gatsby on Good Friday 1925. When President Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday 1865, many found it almost impossible not to find some kind of symbolic correspondence with the crucifixion, especially with the reconciliation that followed. #BookSky
“Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!” What do the Great Gatsby and President Donald Trump have in common? Nostalgia. Here's a 17-minute podcast on Donald's Politics of the Factory Reset. tinyurl.com/5x4zx49k #BookSky #History #Politics
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!” What do the Great Gatsby and President Donald Trump have in common? Nostalgia. Here's a 17-minute podcast on Donald's Politics of the Factory Reset. tinyurl.com/5x4zx49k #BookSky #History #Politics
So sad to hear about the death of Robert Redford. I think I was ten when I watched him in The Great Gatsby for the first time. Was completely and utterly mesmerized by the story. Among the careless folk of Hollywood, he was worth the whole damn bunch put together.
September 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So sad to hear about the death of Robert Redford. I think I was ten when I watched him in The Great Gatsby for the first time. Was completely and utterly mesmerized by the story. Among the careless folk of Hollywood, he was worth the whole damn bunch put together.
I think this clipping could have been sent to Scott Fitzgerald by Max Gerlach. It says in handwriting, 'Meant to send this to you sooner'. Its from the St Louis Post Dispatch, May 1923. Its abt changes in liquor laws to the 3 mile limit. Max's 'old sport' clipping came from the same newspaper.
September 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I think this clipping could have been sent to Scott Fitzgerald by Max Gerlach. It says in handwriting, 'Meant to send this to you sooner'. Its from the St Louis Post Dispatch, May 1923. Its abt changes in liquor laws to the 3 mile limit. Max's 'old sport' clipping came from the same newspaper.
Bill Ryan said recently that, “pretty much every famous classic work of art has over time become the victim of Received Cultural Wisdom.” I've been looking at letters exchanged in the early 1930s between Arthur Mizener & Scott's friend V.F Calverton — 'the community communist' according to Zelda.
September 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Bill Ryan said recently that, “pretty much every famous classic work of art has over time become the victim of Received Cultural Wisdom.” I've been looking at letters exchanged in the early 1930s between Arthur Mizener & Scott's friend V.F Calverton — 'the community communist' according to Zelda.
Ordering a copy of this from ebay. Was a bit pricey on Amazon. Now that I'm down to proofing and decluttering I can go crackers on secondary sources. Sarah Churchwell's book is another I'm hoping to pick up.
September 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Ordering a copy of this from ebay. Was a bit pricey on Amazon. Now that I'm down to proofing and decluttering I can go crackers on secondary sources. Sarah Churchwell's book is another I'm hoping to pick up.
The Great Gatsby musical at the London Coliseum September 4, 2025. My daughter was thrilled at seeing it, not least because of Corbin Bleu.
September 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Great Gatsby musical at the London Coliseum September 4, 2025. My daughter was thrilled at seeing it, not least because of Corbin Bleu.
“He started as one man I knew — and then changed into myself.” 100 years ago F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his old Princeton friend, John Peale Bishop and confessed that Gatsby had been an amalgam of himself and 'one man' he had known. #BookSky
September 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“He started as one man I knew — and then changed into myself.” 100 years ago F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his old Princeton friend, John Peale Bishop and confessed that Gatsby had been an amalgam of himself and 'one man' he had known. #BookSky
Another purchase. The second in a collection of memoirs from Edmund Wilson, one of the most distinguished American critics of his time. Close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald. #BookSky
August 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Another purchase. The second in a collection of memoirs from Edmund Wilson, one of the most distinguished American critics of his time. Close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald. #BookSky
Had a hand in researching and fact-checking this 8-part podcast series from Blanchard House on the inspiration for The Great Gatsby. I feature in it too! Now available on Audible. Joe Nocera narrates. Free on the Amazon app! #BookSky www.audible.co.uk/pd/American-...
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Had a hand in researching and fact-checking this 8-part podcast series from Blanchard House on the inspiration for The Great Gatsby. I feature in it too! Now available on Audible. Joe Nocera narrates. Free on the Amazon app! #BookSky www.audible.co.uk/pd/American-...
“Out of the smoke and the dying flames, would stride the golden figure of Gatsby and in his hands, the tablets of the American Dream.” On July 16, 1945, the same day of Oppenheimer's Trinity Experiment in New Mexico, The New Republic reported on the birth of the Fitzgerald legend. #History #BookSky
August 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Received Helen Rappaport's new book, Rebel Romanov for my birthday yesterday. Features a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau that would sit just as well in a book about The Great Gatsby.
July 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Received Helen Rappaport's new book, Rebel Romanov for my birthday yesterday. Features a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau that would sit just as well in a book about The Great Gatsby.
Scott Fitzgerald's friend, Bertha Goldstein aka Bert Barr with President Harding. Bert had a chequered history. Her first husband, a simple machinist, had divorced her on the grounds that she was an inveterate gambler and flirt. Scott would describe her as a card shark. Resourceful & upwardly mobile
July 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Scott Fitzgerald's friend, Bertha Goldstein aka Bert Barr with President Harding. Bert had a chequered history. Her first husband, a simple machinist, had divorced her on the grounds that she was an inveterate gambler and flirt. Scott would describe her as a card shark. Resourceful & upwardly mobile
"The soul within grasps at the absolute, at infinity, but man is confined and definite, and man’s life he defines as a game of grasping at the unattainable. " James C. Grey writing of Pirandello's work in 1922. One could equate it with Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald was a fan of Pirandello's work #BookSky
July 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"The soul within grasps at the absolute, at infinity, but man is confined and definite, and man’s life he defines as a game of grasping at the unattainable. " James C. Grey writing of Pirandello's work in 1922. One could equate it with Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald was a fan of Pirandello's work #BookSky
Independence Day edition of Saturday Evening Post that ftd in The Great Gatsby. "Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the Saturday Evening Post.". The book starts a few days before #IndependenceDay 1922
July 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Independence Day edition of Saturday Evening Post that ftd in The Great Gatsby. "Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the Saturday Evening Post.". The book starts a few days before #IndependenceDay 1922
In the mid-1930s there was no one speaking out against fascism as much as Scott Fitzgerald's old friend, Konrad Bercovici. Clip from 1942 in which Zelda supports Bercovici on his work for the War Department. He would later sue Charlie Chaplin for pinching The Great Dictator. #history #booksky
June 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM