According to author (and Midwesterner) Susan Choi, Fitzgerald's description of Nick Carraway's remembered homecomings is the novel's most emotionally affecting passage.
Hear the soundtrack cut "Over the Love."
Joseph O'Neill, an Irishman raised in Holland, talks about The Great Gatsby, post-9/11 New York, and his new novel, Netherland.
The canonical novel, published 90 years ago today, was initially deemed "unimportant," "painfully forced," "no more than a glorified anecdote," and "a dud."