Why, of course you can!” is a line famously spoken by the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This year, writers are repeating the past — a lot — with new takes on the St.

“The Great Gatsby” is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month. At the time, no one paid Gerlach — a former car mechanic who had fallen on hard times — any mind.

In his new book, the former Hartford Courant columnist does a deep dive into the words, themes, actions and turns of phrase in the novel.

The car gets driven two to three times a year, and this year I will drive it in the annual club reunion parade on Labor Day weekend. The car has a great big steering wheel and no power steering.

Teaching ‘The Great Gatsby,’ after 100 years F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high ... Then comes the car crash. And then Jay Gatsby is shot. "And so it was kind of ...

A copy of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is displayed June 6, 2013 at Sotheby's in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images) The first review of “The Great Gatsby,” published a ...

It is almost too symmetrical. On the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, it is Elon Musk, titanic car manufacturer and destroyer of worlds, who defines the spirit of a new ...

‘The Great Gatsby’ Inspires a Pen Collection. For the first time, ... and a notebook bound in blue leather and embossed with a gold car motif, at $85, round out the offering.

Although most of The Great Gatsby takes place in the wealthy Long Island suburbs of New York City, our own Motor City plays a bit part. This April marks one full century since its publication in 1925.

In “The Great Gatsby”, money plus connections equal immunity. People are defined by how careful or careless they are, and can afford to be, about drinking, driving, marriage, lovers and crimes.