Lit Hub Radio Dispatch: Is The Great Gatsby Actually Profound?

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FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2021

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Is The Great Gatsby... Actually Profound?

Why is modernity always deadly in 20th-century fiction? Where did Fitzgerald lose control of his material? And most of all: why is this book so commonly cited as the great American novel?

DAMIAN BARR’S LITERARY SALON

Translator Janet Hong Reads an Excerpt from Kwon Yeo-sun’s Novel Lemon

Listen to a reading of award-winning author Kwon Yeo-sun’s novel Lemon, a story of murder, grief, and consequences.

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OPEN FORM

José Vadi on Race and Class Politics in the The Fugitive

José Vadi talks to host Mychal Denzel Smith about the 1993 action flick, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.

Also This Week on Lit Hub Radio

On Otherppl, Julie Poole on losing a parent during childhood, and why Alexandra Kleeman nods to Hamlet in her new novel • On Reading Women, Alexis Daria talks about exploring family dynamics in her new book • On The Quarantine Tapes, Chris Hedges talks to Lena Herzog about the pandemic’s ultimatum • On Change Lab, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda on the alchemy of making music and art • On Book Dreams, Georgina Pazcoguin on patriarchy in the ballet • We Have Ways of Making You Talk considers the controversies of military leader George S. Patton • On So Many Damn Books, Kleeman on superstitions and the symbolism of water • On New Books Network, Cadwell Turnbull on the social realities behind speculative fiction • On The Common, Ricardo Wilson on the importance of interrogating research • On Open Source, Jan Swafford and Robert Levin on Mozart’s infectious genius • Behind the Mic explores the audiobooks of The Archer by Shruti Swamy, Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood, The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish, Putting It Together by James Lapine, and This Shining Life by Harriet Kline • Catch up on Book 9 and Book 10 of The Iliad on Audiobook Break

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