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Mentioned in 190 episodes

The great Gatsby

Book • 1925

Published in 1925, 'The Great Gatsby' is a tragic love story, a mystery, and a social commentary on American life during the Jazz Age. The novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island and becomes entangled in the lives of his wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby's obsession to win back his first love, Daisy Buchanan.

The story delves into themes of honesty, the temptations of wealth, and the struggle to escape the past, ultimately reflecting on the disintegration of the American Dream.

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Mentioned in 190 episodes

Mentioned by

Ryan Holiday

as an example of rereading books to reconnect with who you used to be, citing his first experience with 'The Great Gatsby'.

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Mentioned by

Scott Wu

as one of his personal favorite fiction books.

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Mentioned by

David Perell

in relation to Hunter S. Thompson's rewriting of "The Great Gatsby."

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Mentioned by

Steven Pressfield

in reference to Hunter S. Thompson rewriting it to feel what it was like to write a great novel.

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Discussed by

Brett McKay

and Michael Long as a novel about dopamine and unfulfilled desires.

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Mentioned as a book

Ryan Holiday

has reread for 25 years, finding new meaning in it each time.

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Mentioned by

Steven Pressfield

, who said Hunter S. Thompson rewrote The Great Gatsby to understand writing a great novel.

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Mentioned by

Michael Barbaro

as the book he goes back to time and time again.

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Mentioned by

Brett McKay

in relation to the practice of copying others' work to improve one's own writing.

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Mentioned by

Bari Weiss

, referring to the guests and books featured on Shiloh Brooks' podcast 'Old School'.

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Mentioned by

Dan Fougere

in the context of sales demos and storytelling.

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Mentioned by

Bari Weiss

as the source of the book's epigraph and title, highlighting the characters' carelessness and the consequences of their actions.

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Mentioned by

Brett McKay

in the context of learning to write.

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Mentioned by

Brett McKay

as having a similar rediscovery story to Moby Dick.

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Mentioned as one of the books most commonly taught to middle and high schoolers as the backbone of an English literature education.

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Mentioned by

Ryan Holiday

as a book he read in high school and is rereading now for the 100-year anniversary.

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Mentioned by

Anthony Scaramucci

to highlight how the author was wrong about there not being second acts in America.

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Mentioned by

Ryan Holiday

when explaining that Gatsby was trying to win back Daisy by winning over Carraway.

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Mentioned by

Joe Rogan

and

Will Storr

in relation to his writing style and process.

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Mentioned by

Philip Su

as one of the classics he started rereading and appreciating later in life.

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