Tuesday, April 08, 2025

The best retellings of "The Great Gatsby"

Camille Aubray is the author of Cooking for Picasso and The Godmothers. Both novels were a People Magazine’s Pick for the Best New Books. The Godmothers was also chosen for the Best Books Lists by Newsweek, Buzzfeed, Parade, and Veranda. Cooking for Picasso is an Indiebound bestseller and made the Indie Next Reading Groups List. Aubray is an Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship winner and was a writer-in-residence at the Karolyi Foundation in the South of France. She studied writing with her mentor Margaret Atwood, and was a finalist for the Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

At Lit Hub Aubray tagged some of the best remixes of The Great Gatsby. One title on the list:
Michael Farris Smith, Nick

The narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, is imagined as a World War I veteran in the tumultuous years before he meets Jay Gatsby. Attempting to forget the horror and destruction that he witnessed firsthand, Nick sets off on a whirlwind journey from Paris to New Orleans seeking love and redemption.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue