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Since\u00a0The Great\u00a0Gatsby<\/span><\/i>\u2019s debut in 1925, it\u2019s been dismissed, beloved, misunderstood, interpreted, reinterpreted, and deified among the greatest American novels. This year,\u00a0Gatsby<\/span><\/i>\u00a0enters the public domain, ensuring a new creative crop of reimaginings. Why, after almost a hundred years, do we keep finding ways to explore this novel? Join scholar and critic\u00a0Maureen\u00a0Corrigan, author of\u00a0So We Read On: How the Great\u00a0Gatsby<\/span>\u00a0Came to Be and Why it\u00a0Endures<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>for a discussion of the past, present, and future of Fitzgerald\u2019s novel.<\/p>\n

So We Read On<\/em> is available for purchase at our Bookshop.org storefront<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6918,"template":"","tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3668","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-featured","event_types-featured-past-program","event_types-special-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Enduring Appeal of The Great Gatsby — Planet Word Museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwordmuseum.org\/events\/the-enduring-appeal-of-the-great-gatsby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Enduring Appeal of The Great Gatsby — Planet Word Museum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since\u00a0The Great\u00a0Gatsby\u2019s debut in 1925, it\u2019s been dismissed, beloved, misunderstood, interpreted, reinterpreted, and deified among the greatest American novels. 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