The Enduring Appeal of The Great Gatsby

Friday, April 09, 2021 | 6:30 p.m.

Since The Great Gatsby’s debut in 1925, it’s been dismissed, beloved, misunderstood, interpreted, reinterpreted, and deified among the greatest American novels. This year, Gatsby enters the public domain, ensuring a new creative crop of reimaginings. Why, after almost a hundred years, do we keep finding ways to explore this novel? Join scholar and critic Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why it Endures for a discussion of the past, present, and future of Fitzgerald’s novel.

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