Introducing The Book Club: The Great Gatsby
3/11/202623 min
To listen to the full episode, search The Book Club. Was Daisy Buchanan, the object of Jay Gatsby’s obsessive love in the novel, inspired by the author’s own love life? What window does The Great Gatsby open onto 1920s America, with its Jazz, flappers, and bootlegging? Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald, the man behind one of the most iconic novels in all literature? Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook delve into the fascinating story behind the writing of the Great Gatsby, the world it was born of, and the novel itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAnthony Scaramucci· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, it's Anthony Scaramucci. Welcome to Dominic Sandbrook, who is the co-host of The Rest is History, but has a brand-new podcast out. And so I'm a bibliophile, a big-time bookworm. I'm super excited about your podcast, and I, uh, the title of the podcast is The Book Club. Of course, Dominic is a friend of the show and, uh, close personal friend of mine. Dom, tell us a little bit about this new podcast idea that you've come up with.
Dominic Sandbrook· Guest0:36
Well, Anthony, first of all, thank you so much for having me on The Rest is, uh, Politics US. Now you have your own book club show, of course, called Open Book, don't you, which is a great show and, um, an inspiration for us. My, uh, producer at The Rest is History, Tabitha Syrett, and I love talking about books. We talk about fiction. What we're doing in the book club is every week we're taking a different novel, and we look at the history behind the novel. We look at the author's biography, what they're trying to do. So sometimes they are great works of literature. They might be 1984 or Wuthering Heights or Frankenstein, and sometimes they are more contemporary. So we've literally just recorded an episode. I imagine, Anthony, you're not a huge fan of the romantasy genre, which is fantasy meets ro- meets romance, generally read by, like, teenage girls or women in their 20s and early 30s.
Anthony Scaramucci· Host1:25
I mean, are these, like, the Fabio guys that are, like, walking around on the cover? [laughs] Is that,