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Shiv Malik is an investigative correspondent for the Guardian, and author of The Messenger, published March 2016.
Ian Dunt is editor of Politics.co.uk, political editor of the Erotic Review and a commentator on various TV channels, radio stations and newspapers
Ian Dunt is editor of Politics.co.uk, political editor of the Erotic Review and a commentator on various TV channels, radio stations and newspapers

Boats against the current

More than 90 years after it was published, The Great Gatsby has a more powerful grip on the imagination than ever. But what exactly is it about F Scott Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece that keeps us coming back? Sarah Churchwell spoke to Little Atoms about where the book came from and why it means so much

16/06/2017

More than 90 years after it was published, The Great Gatsby has a more powerful grip on the imagination than ever. But what exactly is it about F Scott Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece that keeps us coming back? Sarah Churchwell spoke to Little Atoms about where the book came from and why it means so much

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Alex Masters is the founding editor of BookSmoke (www.booksmoke.co.uk).She has written reviews, articles and author interviews for a range of publications, including The Guardian, Observer, newbooks and English PEN and she was a judge for The Guardian‘s Not the Booker Prize 2015.
Alex Masters is the founding editor of BookSmoke (www.booksmoke.co.uk).She has written reviews, articles and author interviews for a range of publications, including The Guardian, Observer, newbooks and English PEN and she was a judge for The Guardian‘s Not the Booker Prize 2015.
John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, and the novel The Brandy of the Damned. His latest book is Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century.
John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, and the novel The Brandy of the Damned. His latest book is Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century.
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