The scholar Sarah Churchwell explores Fitzgerald’s era and his place within it in her new book “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby.” By mixing history ...

No one was ever convicted of the crime. This shocking event, Sarah Churchwell argues in her new book, Careless People, would inform F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel, The Great Gatsby, published ...

Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel ... you made reference to one of the great quotes - they were careless people, you know, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up people and things and retreated ...

"Fitzgerald's great gift was his belief in the mirage as mirage." Insights such as this make "Careless People" a book that anyone who cares about "The Great Gatsby" will want to read.

and what Fitzgerald would have called the careless people that he identified as the Buchanans. MARTIN: But what makes the book relevant a century after its publication? ANDERSON-WHEELER ...

“The Great Gatsby” was published 100 years ago today. Its enduring message about the empty and corrupting power of wealth may be even more relevant now. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to provide ...

Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most successful ... "They were called goods for a reason," Churchwell writes in her new book, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about greed and aspiration published nearly a century ago. “They were careless people,” Nick Carraway ... also tweeted the quote Friday. “That’s the essence ...

In his ledger entry for 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald took tally of his productivity, observing unsparingly, "A bad year. No work." He had lost chunks of 1922 to pottering and retooling a flop of a ...

Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great ... the stark contrast between the wealthy elite's careless indulgence and the struggles of ordinary people like Tom Wilson. It’s kind of crazy to think ...

In his ledger entry for 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald took tally of his productivity, observing unsparingly, "A bad year. No work." He had lost chunks of 1922 to pottering and retooling a flop of a ...