How the Great Gatsby resumed high school
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How the Great Gatsby resumed high school
This year is the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Grand GatsbyYou will therefore hear in a coherent way throughout the year (including BR properties during the year). Alexander Manshel examines how The presence of Great Gatsby in high school programs was a fundamental element of the endurance of the book. Fitzgerald himself died before Gatsby became GatsbyAnd the forces that have converged to make it the emblematic work of American literature that it is neither inevitable nor even really plausible from 1940 today. Large room.
Amazon to pin price increases on Trump prices in product pages
One thing that the Biden / Harris administration has learned of the hard (as they have countless others): you don’t want to be the only blame for consumers for higher prices. And if you have made your name and market share by providing cheap products, many of which (most?) Go from abroad, you really want to erase that the more expensive and fast fashion aerpods were completely, certainly not your idea. So according to a source cited by Punchbowl News, Amazon plans to show how the price of an item is the result of prices, directly on the product page next to the price. GUTSY.
John Lithgow surprised by Dumbledore Casting Blowback
The casting of John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore is probably the fourth most important role in the restart of Harry Potter by HBO. And Lithgow himself said that when the news announced that it will not only be the last major role it plays, but will probably be the first line of its biography from now on. One thing he has not predicted Was not everyone would be happy to see him play the role. Danika Ellis wrote this open letter to Lithgow, the exhortant to reconsider, considering how the Harry Potter franchise is now with JK Rowling Transphobic public comments in progress. This letter apparently returned to Lithgow himself, via a friend with a trans child, and rather than reflecting or even conceding that he could understand this point, he replied:
“I thought,” Why is it a factor at all? ” I wonder how JK Rowling absorbed him. As for whether the criticism has embittered the role for him, Lithgow replied: “Oh, the heavens no”.
Perhaps, however, Lithgow will listen to and consider, even if he does not withdraw from production. He could, and this could well be an even more powerful statement, openly defends trans children. Because it seems, according to this same article, this agreement with Rowling was not a factor to assemble production:
Meanwhile, the CEO of HBO and MaxCasey Bloyssaid that the Harry Potter television show had “felt any impact” of Rowling anti-transgender opinions, insisting on the fact: “This did not affect the casting or hiring of writers or production staff or anything.”
A literary resentment that has been cooking for more than a decade
Our own Rebecca Schinksy Finally had an older decade of literary race from his chest. And this is the one I share.
