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In this episode we discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, both the 1925 novel and the 2013 movie (mostly the movie, if we’re being honest). You can rent the movie on YouTube, Amazon, or Google Play. You can get the novel from Project Gutenberg.
Content warnings for strong language, textual references to murder, suicide, abusive relationships, and infidelity, discussions of antisemitism, racism, and classism, and bad Gatsby jokes
We reference or spoil: Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick, Classics Illustrated‘s Moby Dick, Classic Illustrated’s Hamlet, Classics Illustrated’s Kim, Classics Illustrated’s Captains Courageous, Timewalker comics, Edgar Allan Poe‘s “The Cask of Amontillado“, John Mulaney‘s “The One Thing You Can’t Replace“, Hark a Vagrant‘s “Great Gatsbys“, She’s All That (1999), Gunshow‘s “On Fire“, Gamestop Stock shenanigans, “The curtains are blue” meme, antibucci’s The Great Gatsby .. I think on AO3, the Muppets’ Gatsby adaptation script, Kristen Briggs and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Undead, Nghi Vo‘s The Chosen and the Beautiful, NSIS Episodes 81: “The Mayday Snare“, Episode 78: “The Orphaned Light“, Episode 18: “A Body in the Void“, Episode 12: “The Producers“, and Episode 49: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum“, Futurama, Deadpool (2016), Metropolis (1927), Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” Truck-Kun (link cw: fatal car accident), bury your gays trope, The X-Files, The Princess Bride (1987), Leverage, Sir Thomas Malory‘s Le Morte d’Arthur
Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater.
If you’re attending Boskone this year, Kat’s a program participant this year!
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The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.