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Gatsby-Jazz, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
August 6, 2013
Bulletin
“Over the years, I’d purchased books on Indian philosophy, Nepali architecture, alpine flowers, Hatha yoga, spirit possession, as well as old copies of
The Paris Review
, and I frequented the store long enough to see my own collection of short stories appear in the section for Nepali authors.” Kathmandu’s
Pilgrims Book House
rebounds, slowly, from a devastating fire.
The Generative Gatsby
lays out the text of Fitzgerald’s novel like music scores, designed along the lines of twenties-era jazz.
Scholastic Book Club is dead; long live
Scholastic Reading Club
!
“The phrase is alluring, stirring, and indistinctly evocative. It is also, strictly speaking, incomprehensible, and for all the time the phrase has been relished, readers and scholars have debated what the term actually means.” What, exactly, did Homer mean by “
wine-dark sea
” … if that’s even what he said?
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