Making Gatsby Great

Few authors are more synonymous with a place and point in time than F. Scott Fitzgerald. His Great Gatsby came to define the 1920s and cast a golden aura across Long Island’s North Shore for all time.

On today’s episode, Charles Riley guides us through the birth of The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s struggle to make it into a masterpiece. Charles is the director of the Nassau County Museum of Art and author of Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism.

New York Times ad from April, 1925.

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  • What a superb set of questions! Many thanks for keeping the puck in play during this fast paced and most enjoyable skate
    Charlie riley

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