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The Daily

100 Years of ‘The Great Gatsby’

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This year, “The Great Gatsby” turns 100. A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, tells the story of how an overlooked book by a 28-year-old author eventually became the great American novel, and explores why all of these decades later, we still see ourselves in its pages.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavarro. This is The Daily.

0:13.3

This year, the Great Gatsby turns 100.

0:19.2

Today, Times critic at large, A..O. Scott tells us the story of how an overlooked book

0:26.6

by a 28-year-old author eventually became the Great American novel and explores why

0:34.8

all these decades later, we still see ourselves in its pages.

0:43.9

It's Friday, July 25th.

0:49.6

Hey there.

0:50.5

And here he is.

0:52.0

Great to see you.

0:53.3

It's so nice to see you.

0:54.3

Yeah.

0:56.7

Should we get started?

0:57.8

Let's do it.

0:59.6

Well, Tony, welcome to the first ever daily book club.

1:04.5

A book club for the two of us.

1:06.2

That's right.

1:07.9

I brought my copy.

1:09.1

It's beautiful.

1:10.0

Yeah, I do want to show it to you. Oh, it's gorgeous. It's actually got real textured to it. Oh, yeah, it's like it's embossed. It's foil on mat paper. Wow. And it's treasured. That's nice. Well, I have been through, this is maybe my fifth or sixth copy, because I've just, I've worn through some, and then it's always a book that I know I have a copy of and can't find in the chaos of my life and my book, so I buy another one. Can I just look at the cover art? Sure. There's a flapper on the cover, and it's got some short stories in there to sort of of to pad it out. Because it's a short book.

1:45.2

It's a short book.

1:45.8

As we will talk about it.

1:46.8

Yeah.

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