Enjoyed the report about The Great Gatsby on Studio 360 this afternoon.
Interestingly, I was struck by how pedestrian Fitzgerald's prose sometimes was in the early drafts. Some of my students at Johns Hopkins loathe revision/rewriting. But often that's where the real magic is found.
Interestingly, I was struck by how pedestrian Fitzgerald's prose sometimes was in the early drafts. Some of my students at Johns Hopkins loathe revision/rewriting. But often that's where the real magic is found.