The Great Gatsby

Join the Fun!

Brown Bagging It
at the Movies

April 26 – 30
Capitol View Room
State Library of Louisiana
701 N 4th St

Watch a portion of the movie each day Monday - Thursday between 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

Conclude with a discussion on Friday.

Bring a brown bag lunch!
Bottled water and soft drinks will be available.
 



Credits

Works Cited
Excerpts from the novel reprinted with permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. © 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright renewed 1953 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan.

Bruccoli, Matthew J., Preface. The Great Gatsby. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up. ed. Edmund Wilson. New York: New Directions, 1945.

—. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Reprinted with permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group from The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald,  ed. Andrew Turnbull. © 1963 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan. Copyright renewed © 1991.

—. This Side of Paradise. 1920. New York: Scribner, 1998.

Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the Chicago Historical Society for its contribution to the 1920s timeline.

Writers: Jon Peede, David Kipen, Erika Koss, and Dan Stone for the National Endowment for the Arts, with preface by Dana Gioia.

Special thanks to Susannah Bielak, Susan Chandler, Maryrose Flanigan, and Liz Edgar Hernandez.

 

 

 

All information is from the National Endowment for the Arts.


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