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When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American...
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"The Great Gatsby" turns 100: Initially a sales flop, now regarded as the "great American novel"
When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American novel.
‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to embody American aspiration.
100 years of Great Gatsby: 6 adaptations of the American classic
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby," marks 100 years in publication Thursday -- and for nearly as long, fans of the novel have been working to bring the story to the stage and screen.
Opinion: As ‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100, a look at how Connecticut helped shape it
As F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' turns 100, writer Rob Kyff revisits Connecticut's influence on the novel.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 'The Great Gatsby' turns 100
Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Author Steve Almond has written about the struggles and pleasures of writing and "The Great Gatsby.
Fans are celebrating 100 years of 'The Great Gatsby' with a complete live reading
Friends of the St. Paul Library are putting on a live reading of the novel that is expected to last seven hours straight.
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Was Gatsby Actually Black? As Novel Turns 100, One East Bay English Class Makes the Case
The discourse over Gatsby’s race has been ongoing for years. Janet Savage, a California writer and attorney, released her 2017 book Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface. A 2023 essay in The Atlantic meditated on the value of teaching race in Gatsby; the writer Alonzo Vereen claimed that it’s more important to view Gatsby as “unraced.”
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Here's how to celebrate The Great Gatsby's centennial in NYC this week
The evening performance of The Great Gatsby on Thursday, April 10 will include a cast toast the milestone event and an anniversary collector's item to take home. If you can't make it to this week's showing, tickets to the musical are on sale through the rest of 2025.
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The Great Gatsby’s 100th birthday: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100. A century later, it is invoked to help make sense of a world that still confuses “material enterprise with moral achievement” – as critic Sarah Churchwell wrote in the foreword to Gatsby’s centennial edition.
Chicago’s connection to ‘The Great Gatsby’ as Fitzgerald’s novel turns 100
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romance with a North Shore debutante provided fodder for “The Great Gatsby,” which this year turned 100.
The Great Gatsby at 100: this great American novel is a universal meditation on time and change
The fractured sense of time that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates challenges literary convention. It also reflects a world in flux after the first world war.
'Great Gatsby' lights up the Empire State Building to celebrate novel's 100th birthday
There are events and festivities scheduled all week in New York City to celebrate the centennial of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.
Photos: Chicago’s connection to ‘The Great Gatsby’
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the definitive literary monument of the Roaring ’20s, a decade of
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.
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The Great Gatsby Ballet coming to the Orpheum Theatre
Step into the jazzy world of the Roaring Twenties when World Ballet Company's "The Great Gatsby Ballet" comes to the Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. on Oct.
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