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p. 74: This is a nice restaurant here … But I like across the street better! Nick and Gatsby meet Meyer Wolfshiem for lunch in an elegant restaurant in midtown Manhattan. It’s the kind of place where the headwaiter knows to install a highball in your hand before delivering a succulent meal to your t

p. 73: ‘Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,’ I thought; ‘anything at all ….’ Race plays no significant role in The Great Gatsby, unless you adopt the ludicrous assertion that Gatsby was black. Here is the only page with a meaningful composition involving black characters. Nick

This post is about why Second Life failed – but not in the sense of, “here are the reasons why Second Life failed,” but instead, “here is why it is true that Second Life failed.” Slate published an article titled “Why Second Life Failed” that also, like this post, is not an elucidation of reasons [.

The death of Steve Jobs raises and answers the question that haunts the psyches of ambitious entrepreneurs everywhere: “Was it worth it?” Praise follows death like the glowing debris that trails a comet, and the writing in the sky says that Jobs was the greatest CEO ever. A few muted voices remember

You’re not a writer if you’re not writing something today about that day 10 years ago … My wife was screaming about something on TV, but I couldn’t get out of bed. My head was heavy with flu, the sounds couldn’t penetrate the haze of mucus and sick. We had moved to San Francisco from [...]

p. 72: I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for a moment I was sorry I’d ever set foot on his overpopulated lawn. Gatsby warns Nick he’s “going to make a big request of you today,” but he won’t ask him directly, leaving it up to Jordan Baker to ask Nick [...]

Bob Lutz was a product development executive at BMW, Ford, Chrysler and GM over a 47-year career in the auto industry. His book Car Guys vs Bean Counters focuses on his second stint at GM, from 2001-2010. In an excerpt in the WSJ, Lutz phrases a classic question of executive management, about the te

p. 71: I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart. Gatsby carries around a couple of souvenirs to support the stories of his fantastic past: a war medal from Montenegro, a picture in an Oxford quad. These trinkets provide a tangib