The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about the Jazz Age and disillusionment with the American Dream, consistently makes the top tier of great American novel lists. Although it just ...

Among this constantly changing land-use history of Chattanooga, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp this week announced in his state of the county address that he has appointed hard-working Hamilton ...

A hundred years ago, a policy move set the stage for sterling’s diminished importance. Soaring deficits could have similar ...

The final novel in Hilary Mantel’s great trilogy has been adapted for TV. Her editor joins us this week to discuss working ...

The Getty Center's hands-on exhibition, Erik Gernand's small-town-set play, a tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman and more arts headlines and happenings.

Matthew Specktor gives us a tour of his Los Angeles as he publishes “The Golden Hour,” a memoir about his family and a golden era of filmmaking ...

Madison’s next Broadway lineup will include three Wisconsin premieres, a musical built on a Hollywood hit starring Marilyn ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald – whose best-known work “The Great Gatsby” was published 100 years ago – and his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, rented a home in Montgomery, Ala., in 1931.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America's editors for many years, but they all read 'Gatsby.' Everyone reads ...

A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.

In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest ...

A quick trip on Metro’s Red Line is all you have to do to visit the grave of the author behind one of America’s greatest ...