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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Is Being Rewritten by Its Characters

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 06.17.2013 | Books
Anne Margaret Daniel

A new memoir has begun in the Believer magazine, with the first installment just published. It's by Robert Atwan, writing as "Thomas Buchanan." Yes, that Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, Nick's Yale frenemy, Gatsby's nemesis.

Whatever Happened to Graham Greene?

James MacManus | Posted 05.24.2013 | Books
James MacManus

For an answer I turned to my friend Erica Wagner, the literary editor of the London Times. She told me that Greene may well be entering the no-man's land between currently fashionable writers, be they alive or dead, and the enduring classic authors such as Hemingway, Wodehouse and Dickens.

Luhrmann's 'Gatsby': From Old Sport to 'Dude' in 143 minutes

Saladin Ambar | Posted 05.23.2013 | Entertainment
Saladin Ambar

Luhrmann's film works because it gives us the stunning visuals to a place and time few of us have any memory of.

Zelda Wasn't 'Crazy': How What You Don't Know About Fitzgerald Tells Us Something About 'Crazy' Women, Then and Now

Heather Laine Talley | Posted 05.23.2013 | Women
Heather Laine Talley

The "crazy" Zelda that has emerged in our popular imagination is as much Scott's making as The Great Gatsby itself. This is, in and of itself, part of the F. Scott legacy. His work depended on Zelda's silence.

Empathy, Gatsby, and the Great American Tragedy

John Paul Rollert | Posted 05.16.2013 | Books
John Paul Rollert

Hollywood adaptations of great novels tend to unnerve devoted readers. The effort seems hubristic and slightly profane, akin to painting a second Sistine Chapel or adding a chorus to King Lear. Perfection, by definition, can't be improved upon, and it seems suspect even to try.

"Can't Repeat the Past? Why, of Course You Cannes!" Why F. Scott Fitzgerald Fans Should Love Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.17.2013 | Arts
Anne Margaret Daniel

In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his family were in France, spending most of their time on the Riviera where Baz Luhrmann's movie of The Great Gatsby will open the Cannes Film Festival tonight.

The Great Gatsby: 15 Water-Cooler-Worthy Questions

Maryka Biaggio | Posted 05.17.2013 | Books
Maryka Biaggio

Gatsby is all the rage just now, especially Baz Luhrmann's movie rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. And you must have some water-cooler-worthy questions to toss out because, from what I can gather, it's all anybody is talking about.

'It Became A Tragedy'

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.15.2013 | Entertainment

CANNES, France — Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began ...

Christopher Rosen

The Breakout Star Of 'The Great Gatsby'

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Rosen | Posted 05.17.2013 | Entertainment

Baz Luhrmann populated his blockbuster adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" with some of the biggest stars in the world, but it's newcomer Elizabeth Debic...

The Grand Luhrmann

Golriz Moeini | Posted 05.14.2013 | Entertainment
Golriz Moeini

I walked away from this movie wishing I could thank Baz Luhrmann in person for inviting us to his decadent party, but also with the urge that I need to throw out my current wardrobe and chop off my long hair for a new look.

The Great Gatsby From Book to Movie: My Top 20 Faithful Things, Part Three

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.14.2013 | Entertainment
Anne Margaret Daniel

Here's my final set of my favorite 20 movie moments that take something essential about the novel, and put them into cinematic terms.

At Scott and Zelda's Final Resting Place, Gatsby Lives

Michael Winship | Posted 05.14.2013 | Arts
Michael Winship

With all the fanfare around the new movie version of The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann with a screenplay by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, it's a great time to go back to the book and be reminded of F. Scott Fitzgerald's elegant, graceful writing.

The Great Gatsby From Book to Movie: My Top 20 Faithful Things, Part Two

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.13.2013 | Entertainment
Anne Margaret Daniel

Here are a few more of my favorite movie moments that take something essential about the novel, and put them into cinematic terms.

The Great Gatsby From Book to Movie: My Top 20 Faithful Things, Part One

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.20.2013 | Entertainment
Anne Margaret Daniel

Much is being asked this week of how "true" or "faithful" to the novel Baz Luhrmann's movie is. These words of passionate fidelity are somewhat misplaced, always, when speaking of translating any artistic work from one medium to another.

Gatsby for Dummies

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.10.2013 | Entertainment
Erica Abeel

We're best off viewing Luhrmann's Gatsby as a handbook for theme parties for the 1 percent. And think of future adaptations from the literate age Lhurmann might consider.

10 Things I Learned as a Writer From Fitzgerald's Gatsby

Andromeda Romano-Lax | Posted 05.10.2013 | Books
Andromeda Romano-Lax

A warning first: There will be no high-school essayist's hunt for symbols (the green light of Daisy's dock, Dr. Eckleburg's big eyes that see all).

PHOTOS: Meet The Real-Life Woman Who Inspired 'Gatsby'

The Huffington Post | Joe Erbentraut | Posted 05.13.2013 | Chicago

She was a rich debutante named after a da Vinci painting. She was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love. And she was reportedly the woman who served as the...

The Fitzgeralds of Montgomery, Alabama

Keith Runyon | Posted 05.09.2013 | Books
Keith Runyon

Thirty-nine years ago, as a very young Courier-Journal reporter, I traveled south by train to Montgomery, Alabama, to connect with the world that novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, knew in the early part of the 20th century.

What Influence Did The Great Gatsby Have on American Literature?

Quora | Posted 05.09.2013 | Books
Quora

Much of American Literature is a consideration of our ability to head to the frontier, reinvent ourselves, free ourselves of the shackles of the past, the tragic fate of birth in a particular place. This is rather uniquely explored in The Great Gatsby.

Hollywood's Love Affair With F. Scott Fitzgerald

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.09.2013 | Books

LOS ANGELES -- Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkabl...

In The Great Gatsby, What Makes Gatsby Great?

Quora | Posted 05.08.2013 | Books
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Cristina Hartmann, Writer Jay Gatsby is so great, so compelling because he's one of th...

15 Inspirational F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Posted 05.08.2013 | Books

Due to Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby coming out on Friday, all the talk in the book world is on Gatsby. New York Magazine's Kathr...

'NO SOUL'

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 05.08.2013 | Entertainment

If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it's "The Great Gatsby." After...

What Were F. Scott Fitzgerald's Real Models for the Houses of The Great Gatsby?

Anne Margaret Daniel | Posted 05.07.2013 | Books
Anne Margaret Daniel

Princeton, and Princeton's campus buildings themselves, matter more in Fitzgerald's non-collegiate fictions than critics have noted. The influence of the place didn't end with This Side of Paradise. Its echoes in Gatsby are physical and profound.

Good and Bad Surprises in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby

Caryn James | Posted 05.07.2013 | Entertainment
Caryn James

The problems start with Nick Carraway, whose role as the book's narrator is justified on screen by placing him in a sanitarium -- the film's invention -- where he has been diagnosed as "morbidly alcoholic."