Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air and critic-in-residence and lecturer at Georgetown University will be in Asheville this week. Corrigan will share her bookish obsession with a great American novel and promote her latest book, So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures at Malaprops November 19 at 7 p.m. This is a ticketed event. Tickets are free with a purchase of So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures.
Brandishing her own Gatsby enthusiasm and using research into Fitzgerald as well as the book’s history and numerous editions (plus the stage and screen versions), Corrigan acts as a literary archaeologist uncovering the reasons why this book has (and hasn’t, in some cases) captured the American imagination. Michael Cunningham (The Hours) says, “Maureen Corrigan has produced a minor miracle: a book about The Great Gatsby that stands up to Gatsby itself.”
Corrigan's literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! was published in 2005. Corrigan is also a reviewer and columnist for The Washington Post's
Book World. In addition to serving on the advisory panel of The American Heritage Dictionary, she is also an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and has chaired the Mystery and Suspense judges' panel of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. Corrigan was the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. Corrigan also served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures is published by Little, Brown.
