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Hello, I'm Tom Gatti, and you're listening to Culture from the New Statesman.

We're back after an extended Easter break,

and in this episode, we're bringing you a conversation I had with Sarah Churchwell and Erica Wagner

at Cambridge Literary Festival about the legacy of the Great Gatsby,

celebrating its centenary this year.

Good evening, everyone.

100 years ago this month, a book was published that would come to be considered

not only a great American novel, but for many the great American novel,

the book that captured the romance, illusion and corruption of the nation that would dominate the 20th century.

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