
The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Importance of Reading the Classics
"The theme of the absurd has always fascinated me," he says. "I like I'm a big Gatsby person." Taylor Swift does still reference the Great Gatsby quite a bit, Does she? Oh, yeah. If I knew before what I know now, I would have called it Standing on the Beach. It was cool to be Robert. Everyone was like kind of making it plastic work based off of Great Gatby and your friend Taylor Swift did too.
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