Lit Talk*

Aug 06, 2025 — The party is coming to a close. Soon the music will end, the lights will be shut off, the groundkeepers will start cleaning up, and all we’ll have left is the memory...but maybe this story was already a memory. In the final episode of season 2, Nesha...

Jul 30, 2025 — If Chapter 7 was about the true James Gatz, the man hidden beneath the veneer of Gatsby, Chapter 8 is about the true world, the one hidden beneath the shiny exterior of the dreams we adorn it with. What Fitzgerald creates is a world without meaning, a...

Jul 23, 2025 — There is a distinct quality to Fitzgerald’s writing that made it so unique in 1925. It was not just that it was beautiful, but that it was cinematic. Today, we are used to reading books and imagining their scenes playing out on the big screen, but...

Jul 16, 2025 — Nick and Gatsby’s relationship is intimate, to say the least. Of all the attendees at Gatsby’s party, it’s Nick who receives a formal invitation. It’s Nick to whom Gatsby confesses his true origins, and it’s Nick who arranges Gatsby’s funeral, meets...

Jul 09, 2025 — F. Scott Fitzgerald identified a fatal flaw in The Great Gatsby—the novel's women. In this episode, we’ll be talking about the girls of Gatsby alongside another 1920s classic that, in many ways, is Gatsby if it were written for and by women. That novel...