![]() ![]() on a joy ride into Manhattan where Tom takes Nick to. We don't explicitly read about, but in chapter two, Nick is taken along by Tom Buchanan. It's a story in which you get bootlegging, crime, explicit sexuality - and remember this is 1925 when it was published, so it's pretty racy for its time. There are three violent deaths in Gatsby. Nina Subin/Courtesy of Little, Brown and Co. Her new book So We Read On is a reference to one of the last lines in The Great Gatsby: "So we beat on. Maureen Corrigan is a book critic for Fresh Air and a critic-in-residence and lecturer at Georgetown University. She grew up near an area where part of the book is set in Queens, N.Y., which is described as The Valley of Ashes because it was a dump for coal-burning ashes. While Corrigan is hardly alone in her evaluation of The Great Gatsby, she's perhaps unique in her ability to write in such a lively and engaging way about the book, Fitzgerald's life and the era in which it's set - the 1920s.Ĭorrigan has read The Great Gatsby more than 50 times and has taught it to generations of college students. The doomed beauty of trying - that's what this novel is about." ![]() to be the boat against the current, even though failure and death inevitably await you. "You can't escape the past, but isn't it noble to try?" she says. She's written a new book about it called So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures.Ĭorrigan says she loves The Great Gatsby in part because of its message that it's admirable to try to beat your own fate. How?īut today Corrigan considers The Great Gatsby to be the greatest American novel - and it's the novel she loves more than any other. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title So We Read On Author Maureen Corrigan
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