On April 10, 2025, The Great Gatsby---widely heralded as among the greatest of all American novels---celebrates its centennial. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society is marking this landmark with a weekly chapter-by-chapter reading of the novel featuring eleven of the most significant American fiction writers of our day. Episodes will be released weekly beginning on February 13. Here is the schedule:

February 13                 Chapter 1                    Jonathan Franzen

February 20                 Chapter 2                   Jane Smiley

February 27                 Chapter 3                   Ann Beattie

March 6                       Chapter 4                   Joseph O’Neill

March 13                     Chapter 5                    Robert Olen Butler

March 20                     Chapter 6                   Richard Russo

March 27                     Chapter 7                    Kim Stanley Robinson/ Maxine Hong                                                                                           Kingston

April 3                         Chapter 8                    Francine Prose

April 10                       Chapter 9                    Gish Jen/ Alice McDermott 

Episodes are also available for download on the Fitzgerald Society website (www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org) and on the Society's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@f.scottfitzgeraldsociety8488). It's truly a different and unique experience luxuriating in Fitzgerald's luminescent prose hearing his cadences read aloud by these voices.