‘Gatsby’ Is Great, but Fitzgerald’s Stories Are Even Greater
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
The novelette ‘May Day’ is Exhibit A proving that if you pass on F. Scott Fitzgerald the short-story writer, you miss out on the best of his inventions.
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With The Great Gatsby—the first and only work by Fitzgerald most people read—we’re instructed, starting in high school and then ever after, that only one manuscript by the Minnesota-born author is deemed worth our time.
