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Snacks and Cocktails: Reading THE GREAT GATSBY

In a recent post, I referred to the The Great Gatsby as a “#readingfail,” along with Moby-Dick and several other ...

The Riot Read Begins….

This post is related to our Riot Read of The Great Gatsby. Check out related posts here. ____________________________ Alright folks, here we ...

Close-Reading the First Two Sentences of THE GREAT GATSBY

Like Hamlet or The Godfather or Star Wars, it’s hard to even see The Great Gatsby for itself. Even it ...

The Dictionary of Fictional Techniques: The Ishmael Narrator

The Dictionary of Fictional Techniques is a running feature in which I observe, name, and discuss heretofore uncategorized (at least to ...

Get Ready for The Riot Read: THE GREAT GATSBY

All right, you better finish whatever it is you are reading because on Tuesday, we’re kicking off the first Riot ...

Genre Kryptonite: New York City Snob Stories

Cristina Alger, author of The Darlings, owes me some sleep. Her thrilling debut novel about a privileged New York City ...

What Do You Think of the GREAT GATSBY Trailer?

Love it? Hate it? Let’s hear it. 

Poster for the new THE GREAT GATSBY movie

Gotta say…..dead on to these eyes. Cautiously, carefully, guardedly optimistic….. (Check out our Confidence Index for projections on the film’s ...

The Confidence Index: Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY

The Confidence Index….in which we assess the chance that an upcoming adaptation of a novel/book/short story/comic will not suck. A ...