Coates is the eighth recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize and will accept the award during “An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates Celebrating American Storytelling” on Friday, Sept. 22 at Alabama State University.
,” a witty and satirical jab at claims that he ignores and maligns white people when writing about race and history. In the article, Coates examined books that had an early influence on his writing career. Here’s a look back at what he wrote about “The Great Gatsby”:
“My Lord, I read this book in a day during my sophomore year of college. I still think it is the quintessential American novel, and personally, the greatest novel I’ve ever read. I’m a sucker for brevity, but not brevity for the sake of it, but brevity paired with potency. And there is just so much packed into Gatsby, so much emotion and so much color. I remember reading that scene in the second chapter when Gatsby has this huge party and just marvelling at how beautifully it was painted.
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