An interesting piece about #writing, #reading, and a bit on collecting #firstEditions. There’s some irony in owning a first edition of #greatGatsby owned earlier by Dorothy Scarritt, Oppenheimer’s secretary at Los Alamos. And I had only a little twinge reading that one who just turned 40 might expect to read only 480 more books carefully if one manages to read one book a month.
This line in "The Great Gatsby" (as Nick Carraway's riding the train from Long Island into New York City) is a transitional fossil record:
"My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand."
Because the modern verb "commuting" and nouns "commuter" and "commute"....
stem from names for multi-ride railroad/streetcar passes that truncated or "commuted" fare payments ("commute" here being the same verb we use in "commuted their original prison sentence").
New blog post about "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway's struggle to love, multiple new stage adaptations, what's hard about porting a story to another medium, anti-racism tradeoffs, and @jacob being a patient friend
The world premiere of The Great Gatsby musical with book by Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones), and songs by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square) will star Jeremy Jordan as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada as Daisy Buchanan. Further casting has yet to be announced....
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada Will Star in The Great Gatsby Musical at Paper Mill Playhouse in October 2023 (playbill.com)
The world premiere of The Great Gatsby musical with book by Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones), and songs by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square) will star Jeremy Jordan as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada as Daisy Buchanan. Further casting has yet to be announced....