And so my goal of rereading my AP English course load begins… Ok, so basically anyone who went to high school in America knows The Great Gatsby and it’s incredibly re-readable although I haven’t read it since before this treasure came out: 100 year old spoilers ahead… In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway is living near his cousin, Daisy, in fictional West Egg trying to make a living after graduating college and serving in WW1. While Nick has to work to earn a living most […]
The Roaring Twenties Were a Snore
I was one of those students who enjoyed her English Lit classes in high-school and I received two Humanities credits my Freshman year of college by taking 2000 & 3000 Level English Lit classes. Needless to say I’ve read the Great Gatsby more than once (and I’ve seen Redford as well as DiCaprio try their hand at the titular character) which drew me to Sarah Churchwell’s Careless People. I’m ashamed to admit I fell asleep more than once trying to get through this one- in […]
Jizz rags in the Jazz Age, whaat?
You’ll have to click through to see what I’m talking about with that title.