Gatsby’s Secret
Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.
“...of all of the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about…”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a May 1925 letter to literary critic Edmund Wilson
One fall semester in the late 1990s, Medgar Evers College professor Carlyle V. Thompson was assigned to teach “Introduction to Literature,” oblig…
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