Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, back from a brief one-week sabbatical. I don't think that's how sabbaticals work, but a brief one-week break. And I'm here with Angelina Stanford and Adam Andrews. Angelina, Adam, welcome back to Close Reeds. Thanks.

So Adam has been here for one episode previously.

We discussed a short story.

Angelina, of course, has been here many episodes, short stories and otherwise.

And we are here to discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

We're going to be spending the rest of 2018 discussing that.

We're going to do our normal cycle where we discuss the chapters.

And at the end, we do a Q&A episode where we answer your questions.

So if you have questions as we're going, you can, of course, post them to our Close Reads Facebook group, which I noticed, Adam, I noticed you, you submitted for approval to become a part of it.

Yeah, I waited on pins and needles.

I was on Tinder hooks until I got the approval.

I'm so excited to be in it.

I love being on the inside.

Well, you will find that it is both a blessing and a curse to be on this show and also on the Facebook group.

Actually, that's not true.

It's purely, purely blessing.

But now that you're on the show and you are, you know, presenting your opinions for the world, be prepared for them to be called into question by the listeners. So now that you're on the Facebook group, they can tag you when they call and call you into question.

Fair enough. I've been fairly warned. Prepare yourself. Exactly.

So people, yeah, we'll go ahead and post your questions on the Facebook group. We'll go

ahead and just say for the sake of the conversation, let's do a hashtag and just call it Gatsby Q&A

and we'll say that we will use the ampersand.

So Gatsby Q&A with the ampersand,

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