I can’t let April slip by without celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. Published on April 10, 1925 to lukewarm reviews and anemic sales, it is probably the most enduring work of fiction of the 20th Century. And if you believe that imitation is the highest form of flattery, then The Great Gatsby has been pretty much flattered into somewhere above the clouds since its copyright expired in 2021. “Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter flatter,” in the word

A lot of people moved to cities during the Jazz Age. The city was where it was happening, baby, even though people didn’t talk like that...