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Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby

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Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby
Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/books/great-gatsby-fitzgerald-copyright.html
Journal
The NewYork Times
Issued Date
December 30, 2020
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Writer
Lee Min Jin

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  • Lee Min Jin
  • Birth : 1968 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Min Jin
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이민진
  • ISNI : 0000000047748236
  • Works : 41
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I’ve long held to the completely unsupported notion that a protagonist is simpler to write than a truly memorable supporting character. Sometimes just a silhouette — created with a few slashes of the pen, a few charismatic adjectives — seems the more unlikely accomplishment, born out of some surplus wit and energy, some surfeit of love for a fictional world that expresses itself in the desire to animate even its most minor participants.  

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