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5 ‘Great Gatsby’ Adaptations We Need in 2021
Abby Petree January 19, 2021

Most of us are already tired of 2021, but there is a silver lining: this is the year that the copyright for The Great Gatsby has expired, meaning that adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic nove…

Abby Petree January 19, 2021
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Classic Ships That Need a Revisionist Retelling (or Not)
Abby Petree July 28, 2020

Bookworms love a good retelling. Some romantic ships, like Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, we will read or watch over and over, in every possible setting, without ever getting tir…

Abby Petree July 28, 2020
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5 Songs for a Night at Gatsby’s
Grace Holtzclaw May 7, 2019

From decade to decade and dusk till dawn, the last name Gatsby is passed down between generations like a bottomless flute champagne glass. I invite you inside the mansion to get a closer look, or rath…

Grace Holtzclaw May 7, 2019
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Into the Past: Assessing Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby
Matthew Goudreau August 8, 2016

After nearly ten years of production qualms, Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down is soon to be made available for streaming. With trademark flashy visuals and slightly overblown spectacle, Luhrmann tend…

Matthew Goudreau August 8, 2016
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Read of the Week: ‘Even in Paradise’ by Chelsey Philpot
Stephanie Estrada October 10, 2015

Even in Paradise by Chelsey Philpot When Charlotte meets Julia, she never imagines they’ll become anything more than just acquaintances, but after a few unusual run-ins, she’s being invite…

Stephanie Estrada October 10, 2015
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Read of the Week: Great by Sara Benincasa
Stephanie Estrada March 21, 2015

In Sara Benincasa’s contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, a teenage girl becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle, only to be implicated in a tragedy that shakes the summ…

Stephanie Estrada March 21, 2015
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Celebrate Your Right to Read: Banned Books Week
Gena Brookes September 15, 2014

In honor of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week (www.ala.org/bbooks), beginning September 21, the country will celebrate its essential, inborn freedom of reading literature. Ban…

Gena Brookes September 15, 2014

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