Each time I re-read The Great Gatsby, I am pleased to find it lives up to the hype of memory, which is appropriate for a novel about the inability of the past to live up to its reputation. The credit ...

Gatsby’s lavish parties and obsessive pursuit of love mirror Fitzgerald’s real-life struggle with class, insecurity and the painful gap between who he was and who he hoped to become Decades after ...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father’s side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics ...

SAULT STE. MARIE— Even before she went down, the Edmund Fitzgerald was arguably the most well-known freighter sailing on the Great Lakes. People came from miles around to catch a glimpse of her and ...

LAKE SUPERIOR - Forty-six years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in the grip of a deadly storm on Lake Superior. Investigators would later say the Mighty Fitz’s course had put her in the ...

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Superior - and a legend was born. The iron ore freighter, one of the largest and most well-known ships on the Great Lakes, ...

On Saturday and Sunday, people can catch “The Fitzgerald’s Legacy and the Power of Tugs,” the latest episode of Great Lakes Now from Detroit PBS. On this episode of Great Lakes Now, learn why the ...

MICHIGAN — The Great Lakes are forces of nature, and one stands apart from the rest. Lake Superior is the biggest and deepest of the five Great Lakes. For centuries, humankind has fought to navigate ...

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American ...

My answer, predictably enough, is that The Great Gatsby is not simply some chore to be endured at a formative point in education, but one of those rare books that can be appreciated, even loved, at ...

I went to see Baz Luhrmann’s beautiful film The Great Gatsby a few weeks ago. The reviews had been lukewarm, as if the critics were reluctant to admire a movie that (very cleverly) used pounding rock ...

Dotting the water's edge of Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the opulence of the homes speaks for itself. But not nearly as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald once spoke of that opulence: "A breeze blew through ...