Episode · The Book Review · 2025-04-11
Books mentioned on 'The Great Gatsby' at 100
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A.O. Scott recommended Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and discussed MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, and The Stranger, The Plague (Coles Notes) by Albert Camus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F.
Discussed“It's April, and this month marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel about America, the Roaring 20s, New York City, wealth, class, love, tragedy, and one very powerful green light.”
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Tender is the Night
Tender Is the Night by F.
Recommended“even though he wrote after Gatsby I think what is actually his masterpiece Tender is the night.”
Where to get it
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.
Discussed“And the book was forgotten too in in Moby Dick almost. It's like that. I mean, Moby Dick had a longer obscurity”
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J.
Discussed“It's the book that Holden Caulfield talks about. Maybe the only book that Holden Coughfield and Catcher and the Ry kind of talks about with reverence”
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The Stranger, The Plague (Coles Notes)
The Stranger by Albert Camus is a foundational philosophical novel that explores themes of existentialism, absurdism, and alienation through the experiences of its protagonist, Meursault.
Discussed“Gatsby became a kind of an alienated a tragic figure not as the victim of a cruel class society which may be how he might have looked in the 20s or how he might look now but more as a sort of the malaise of modern life as a figure like Holden Caulfield or like Muro in Kamu's the stranger”
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