Thursday, January 07, 2021
The other day on NPR's Morning Edition there was a piece about how some guy has written a prequel to The Great Gatsby because the author felt that Scott Fitzgerald didn't tell his readers enough about Nick Carraway. Since Fitzgerald's novel is, in fact, about Carraway I am at a loss as to how this bit of fan fiction managed to find an actual publisher, much less a credulous interviewer, but there you are. I have long held that the two best candidates for The Great American Novel are Gatsby and Moby Dick so maybe we can look forward to a prequel to Melville's novel. After all, what do we really know about the character who tells us to call him Ishmael? We don't even know his real name!
// posted by Bill @ 8:01 AM 
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