Maureen Corrigan

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Maureen Corrigan

‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped. (washingtonpost.com) ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a classic. But a century ago, it flopped. By Maureen Corrigan 2025040923300000 F. Scott Fitzgerald would be flabbergasted to hear that on the 100th anniversary of its publication, "The Great Gatsby" is being celebrated around the world.

2 weeks ago | wesa.fm | Maureen Corrigan

The Great Gatsby — 100 years old? How can that be? To borrow the words F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe New York City in the 1920s, The Great Gatsby possesses "all the iridescence of the beginning of the world."The novel's main characters are young in a restless America reveling in the excess of the new Modern Age — an age whose anxieties have resurfaced with fresh intensity in our own moment.

4 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Maureen Corrigan

No one summons up the “old weird America” in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors digging for gold mash up history with the macabre in a cracker barrel aged with dry humor. Russell’s celebrated debut novel “Swamplandia!” came out in 2011. Since then, she’s published a couple of excellent short story collections; but, the wait for another novel was growing a little strained.

1 month ago | kuow.org | Maureen Corrigan

No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors digging for gold mash up history with the macabre in a cracker barrel aged with dry humor. Russell's celebrated debut novel Swamplandia!came out in 2011. Since then, she's published a couple of excellent short story collections; but, the wait for another novel was growing a little strained.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Maureen Corrigan

Why do characters in murder mysteries continue to accept invitations to isolated islands? And, once there, why do they always turn to each other and say something like, “It might be better if we split up”? I’m not complaining, just wondering.