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As It Turns 100, ‘The Great Gatsby’ Takes Several Turns in the Spotlight
The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina.
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'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel
Fitzgerald may have also modeled Gatsby’s parties on those he attended at Keewaydin, the Sands Point estate of New ... year. One reason, said writer Jay Cantor, whose novels include "Great ...
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100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America
The Great Gatsby — 100 years old ... the excess of the new Modern Age — an age whose anxieties have resurfaced with fresh intensity in our own moment. Great works of art are great, in part ...
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On This Day: 'Great Gatsby' by Fitzgerald published
In 1925, The Great Gatsby by ... States in 20 years, movie pioneer and comic Charlie Chaplin accepted an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking.
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‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped.
Wilson, who had been a year ahead of Fitzgerald at Princeton ... Yes, that’s right: “The Great Gatsby,” like all great art, is inexhaustible, bottomless, still talking to its time and ...
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You’ve missed the point of The Great Gatsby
It was a perfectly timed encapsulation of what we get wrong about F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, which was first published 100 years ago today. At the eponymous Jay Gatsby’s parties ... New York ...
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Cheat Sheets for ‘The Great Gatsby's' Centennial
One hundred years after F ... the Broadway production of "The Great Gatsby" flipped the light switch. The number of people who are throwing Gatsby-inspired parties - "and not just booksellers ...
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Gatsby’s Long Island: From Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired F Scott Fitzgerald
In 1922, a year after giving ... less lavish but cosy, Art Deco-themed Inn at Great Neck. This is the town Fitzgerald once called home that inspired Jay Gatsby’s new-monied playground, West ...
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100 years later, ‘The Great Gatsby’ still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair on June 13, 2013. (Oli Scarff | Getty Images Europe) The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow ...
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17 Of London’s Best Champagne Bars
It’s here you’ll travel back in time to the swinging 1920s, with all of the glitz and glamour of the bygone Great Gatsby years. Lined with mirrored ... are striking and alluring, with jet-black and ...
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18 Jazz Age Recipes for a Great Gatsby Party
There are no gimlets in The Great ... year recedes before us." This vintage dish would not have been out of a place on Gatsby's "buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvres." Invented ...