The Great Gatsby: An Essay in Tweets
Melville’s Ahab (19th century), Fitzgerald’s Gatsby (20th century)—our tragic American heroes to set beside Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear.
A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork
Melville’s Ahab (19th century), Fitzgerald’s Gatsby (20th century)—our tragic American heroes to set beside Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear.
As the first sentence or paragraph in a novel is a (hidden) signal of all that is to come, so the first story in a collection is crucial.