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'Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story' is a tale worth telling


This month the momentous novel “The Great Gatsby” went into public domain, so there is no better time to bring up a film that sheds new light on this old classic.
Directed by Robert Steven Williams in his first full-length documentary, “Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story,” presented by Vision Films and Against the Grain Productions in 2020, began as a 2013 project to document the Fitzgeralds’ time in Westport, Connecticut. He worked with the brilliant author Richard Webb Jr., whose companion book to the film, “Boats Against the Current,” stipulates the extensive study done on this eminent subject. Their subsequent research and creative output was inspired by an article published in The New Yorker by “The woman who really started us on this journey,” the late Barbara Probst Solomon. Her work was left mostly dormant for years. ....

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Gatsby revisited ... again, at the Shelter Island Public Library


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Bored? Let’s take a trip back to the Roaring Twenties, that era of Prohibition when, ironically, the booze flowed more freely than ever.
Fashionable young women flappers wore short skirts and bobbed their hair, the music was hot and boisterous parties lasted well into the night.
It was called The Jazz Age, a term coined early in the decade by F. Scott Fitzgerald who more than any other artist in any form captured its reckless essence, most notably in his masterpiece, “The Great Gatsby.”
Join us – remotely, via Zoom on Jan. 22 at the Library’s Friday Night Dialogues, for a discussion of the origins of the iconic novel, still regarded by literary critics and historians 100 years after its publication as the greatest American novel of the 20th Century. “Gatsby” is second only to “Ulysses” on the prestigious Modern Library 100 Best Novels list and is still a best-seller with worldwide sales of s ....

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