With the beginning of the Spring Semester comes the launch of programming for UConn Reads. Our choice this year, The Great Gatsby, has generated a lot of excitement and interest. Many different departments and campus groups are organizing events, and information about these will be posted on the UConn Reads website as well as the… continue reading

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring the holidays as a theme in Fitzgerald’s writing. In particular, I decided to see what he wrote about New Year’s Eve – after all, I thought, the great chronicler of the Jazz Age must have attended, and included in his fiction, any number of New Year’s bashes…. continue reading