So Many People Are Reading Fitzgerald Now That We Can Totally Afford To Look Down On Some Of Them

“I think it would bring shame to anyone who was trying to read that book on the subway.”
 — In an age where people feel comfortable listing the TV shows they like on their resumes, are we really going to mock readers who carry around a copy of The Great Gatsby with a movie tie-in cover rather than the cover everyone knows from high school? Go ahead, laugh now, but in ten years when the only thing you ever see people reading is the novelization of “Angry Birds” or Fifty Shades of Grey for Kids you will look back at this era as the last moment of intellectual striving.