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After “Gatsby” and “Catcher” and Gaddis it didn’t look back. It honed its approach for cell-phone mini-books, then buffed up, tried on smirks, and tramped past a bust of Jonathan Franzen. If this was its coming-out party, it mainly peered in- ward. It wanted to jostle a reader’s heart into snare-drumming for bit players on […] The post The Novel (James Reiss) appeared first on Carolyn Daughters.| Carolyn Daughters
This post is excerpted and adapted from my introduction to The Century Press edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I’m grateful to the Press for the opportunity to introduce this great novel from an economist’s perspective, and to be part of its handsome leather bound and letterpress first edition. Go to https://www.centurypress.ca/products/the-great-gatsby-pre-order to … Continue reading The Great Gatsby, then and now| Economics for public policy
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