This article is from the archive of our partner . You know when something makes it into Urban Dictionary (from way back in 2003), it's for real: But how in the Gatsby did we get here from Fitzgerald's ...

Not only was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” a commercial failure, but it fell into near obscurity a few years after its initial publication. Later, famed literary critic Harold Bloom would ...

Happy birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald! The famed author of such Jazz Age stories as "Tender Is the Night" and "The Beautiful and the Damned" was born on this day in 1896 and would be celebrating his ...

In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald — ...

When book critic Maureen Corrigan first read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in high school, she was unimpressed. "Not a lot happens in Gatsby," Corrigan tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It's ...

With the film version of The Great Gatsby set to hit screens today, 1920s style shindigs are everywhere, celebrating the lavish lifestyle lived by the millionaire protagonist. Although Gatsby comes ...

COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the transcendent. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ is displayed in a bookshop.

Mr. Clark is the coordinator of the comedy program at Humber Polytechnic in Toronto and has listened to ”The Great Gatsby” roughly 200 times. “The Great Gatsby” turned 100 this week. Probably, like me ...

The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began with its first publication a century ago, in April 1925. Few ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Oct. 25, 2022. It has been updated. Not only was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” a commercial failure, but it fell into near obscurity ...