A century after “The Great Gatsby” was first published, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s slender novel about a mysterious, lovelorn millionaire living and dying in a Long Island mansion has become among the most widely read American fictions — and also among the most analyzed and interpreted. A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz this week to discuss Fitzgerald’s novel an ... Show More
Jul 10
This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’
If you can’t tell your Eurylochus from your Telemachus, fear not: Your primer on “The Odyssey” is here, just in time for Christopher Nolan’s new film adaptation of the 3,000-year-old epic. Madeline Miller, who reinvented “The Odyssey” in her best-selling novel “Circe,” explains w ... Show More
43m 38s
Jul 2025
100 Years of ‘The Great Gatsby’
<p>This year, “The Great Gatsby” turns 100.</p><p>A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, tells the story of how an overlooked book by a 28-year-old author eventually became the great American novel, and explores why all of these decades later, we still ... Show More
41m 52s
Nov 2025
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Tonight, we traverse the gilded edges and shadowed corners of a fabled 1920s landscape, where ambition and illusion collide beneath starlit extravagance. Envelop ourselves in the lush prose, as we drift through the opulent yet dimming dreams of Jay Gatsby, a man whose heart is et ... Show More
20m 5s
Nov 2008
Slate's Audio Book Club: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the American classic The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.
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<p class="p1">Today, we will discuss the famous book <strong><em>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald</em></strong>. This story takes us to the 1920s, a time of jazz music, big parties, and fancy clothes in the United States.</p> <p class="p1"><strong><em>The Great Gatsby</em> ... Show More
