The Great Gatsby

Do we really need another adaptation of The Great Gatsby?

 
By Emily Temple  January 16, 2024
Literary History

When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business

By Charles Scribner III  November 28, 2023
Friendship

It’s Very, Very Complicated: A Reading List of Friendships That Are All Over the Place

By Ore Agbaje-Williams  May 19, 2023
What (Not) to Watch

10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On

By Literary Hub  April 25, 2023
The Hub

Watch the only remaining footage of the very first film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

By Emily Temple  April 10, 2023
The Hub

Florence Welch’s Gatsby musical will premiere next year.

By Dan Sheehan  February 22, 2023
The Writing Life

On the Impossible Encounter That Allowed Me to Write My Novel

By June Gervais  June 24, 2022
The Hub

In response to people noticing his very obvious plagiarism, John Hughes says actually, no.

By Jessie Gaynor  June 17, 2022
The Hub

Australian novelist John Hughes plagiarized from the obscure novel The Great Gatsby.

By Jessie Gaynor  June 15, 2022
First Draft

Soon Wiley on Marrying Literary and Genre Fiction in His Debut Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 13, 2022
Writing Advice

When Writing a Novel, Forget the How and Focus on the What

By Carter Bays  June 10, 2022
American Classics

How the Male Point of View Shapes the Narrative of The Great Gatsby

By Jillian Cantor  February 1, 2022
Best of the Year

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

By Literary Hub  December 16, 2021
Book Marks Questionnaire

Tom Zoellner on Gatsby, Judy Blume, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

By Book Marks  November 22, 2021
The Midwest

On Jay Gatsby, the Most Famous North Dakotan

By Sarah Vogel  November 2, 2021
Lit Century

Is The Great Gatsby Actually Profound?

By Lit Century   October 12, 2021
Income Inequality

Do Fictional Critiques of the Wealthy Ever Really . . . Work?

By Andrew Martin & Benjamin Nugent  September 24, 2021
The Hub

A college class re-wrote The Great Gatsby over Zoom—and now it’s been optioned for film.

By Walker Caplan  September 10, 2021
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Nghi Vo, Shelley Parker-Chan, and Stephanie Ybarra on Interrogating the Canon of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 11, 2021
Storytelling

Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

By Katie Crouch  July 14, 2021
The Hub

Florence Welch (of Florence and The Machine) to score Great Gatsby on Broadway.

By Jonny Diamond  April 28, 2021
The Hub

The Great Gatsby adaptation boom continues—this time with an animated feature.

By Walker Caplan  February 23, 2021
Lit Century

Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Further Evidence That All Stories Are Hauntings

By Lit Century   February 23, 2021
Behind the Mic

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Read by Sean Astin

By Behind the Mic   February 12, 2021
The Hub

A “diverse, inclusive” reimagining of The Great Gatsby is coming to the small screen.

By Walker Caplan  January 27, 2021
Book Origins

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

By David Stuart MacLean  January 21, 2021
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