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World Book Club: The Great Gatsby

American Classic: Jay McInerney talks to Harriett Gilbert about F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.

This month a very special edition of World Book Club coming from New York City in the USA.

We’re partnering up with the acclaimed Leonard Lopate Show’s Book Club on the New York radio station WNYC. In advance of the much anticipated film about to open worldwide we’ve come here to discuss that classic novel of The Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby. And who better to talk to about it than chronicler of today’s New York young urban sophisticates, novelist Jay McInerney. He is joined on stage by F Scott Fitzgerald scholar Anne Margaret Daniel and together we discuss the haunting tale of dazzling, doomed Jay Gatsby as told to through the eyes of young Midwesterner Nick Carraway.

Jay McInerney photo by David Howell.

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Sun 5 May 2013 21:05GMT
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The Great Gatsby

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The panel and audience during the recording at The Greene Space Studio in New York.

Jay McInerney with Harriett Gilbert

Jay McInerney with Harriett Gilbert

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  • Sun 5 May 2013 08:05GMT
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  • Sun 5 May 2013 21:05GMT
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