Michael Washburn

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Animated Netflix show tries to be ‘Rick and Morty’ but ends up at sub-‘Family Guy’ levels

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The last Titan of the Latin American literary boom has fallen

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Novelists of our time, looking for subject matter, might train their sights on the legal, political, financial, and cultural structures that insulate a small number of the fortunate from the consequences of misdeeds. But anyone who sets out to write a book about it all will need to ask how the new work could in any way improve upon a novel published a hundred years ago, on April 10, 1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critique of the lifestyles of the rich and infamous is as relevant as ever

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

The Maison des écrivains et de la littérature, popularly known as the “Mél,” has long been a beloved fixture of Paris’s sixteenth arrondissement. This cultural institution has played a pedagogic role since its founding in March 1986, helping foster literacy and love for reading among students, providing resources for writers and scholars, and sponsoring authors’ residencies in France and abroad, among other activities.