The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Presents Gatsby Centennial Readings
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The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Presents Gatsby Centennial Readings
On April 10, 2025, The Great Gatsby---widely heralded as among the greatest of all American novels---celebrates its centennial. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society is marking this landmark with a weekly chapter-by-chapter reading of the novel featuring eleven of the most significant American fiction wri...
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Gatsby@100 Chapter 9 featuring Gish Jen and Alice McDermott
Gish Jen is the author of five novels, two collections of short stories, and two non-fiction books. Her most recent works include the 2020 novel The R...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 8 featuring Francine Prose
Francine Prose is the author of twenty novels, three collections of short stories, eleven non-fiction books, and a children’s book. Her most recent bo...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 7 featuring Kim Stanley Robinson and Maxine Hong Kingston
Kim Stanley Robinson is, according to The New Yorker, “generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers.” He is the author...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 6 featuring Richard Russo
Richard Russo is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, and two books of non-fiction. His most recent book is his 2023 novel So...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 5 featuring Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler is the author of sixteen novels, six short story collections, and a non-fiction book on The Process of Writing Fiction; his most re...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 4 featuring Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O’Neill is the author of five novels, a collection of short stories, and a family history. His most recent book is the 2024 novel Godwin. His 2...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 3 featuring Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is the author of nine novels, twelve collections of short stories, a children’s book, and two non-fiction books. Her most recent publicati...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 2 featuring Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is the author of seventeen novels, two collections of short stories, five books of non-fiction, eight young adult novels, and a children’s...
Gatsby@100 Chapter 1 featuring Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is the author of six novels, most recently Crossroads and Purity, and five works of nonfiction, including The Discomfort Zone, Farthe...
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The Flexibility, Durability, and Portability of the Short Story
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Teaching American Literature Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Push for Social Justice
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