New Books in Biography Podcast Episodes featuring Sarah Churchwell

Sarah Churchwell, “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby” (Virago, 2013)

New Books in Biography - September 19, 2013 15:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 72 ratings
One phenomenon of movies made of classic novels is that the movie often says a lot more about the time of its making than about the time of the novel. And so Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is more a depiction of a 2012 idea of the 1920s than a realistic depiction of the ’20s themselves. But wha...