The Great Gatsby, now in public domain, gets some new cover art
Oli Scarff/Getty Images As 2021 kicks off, publishers with an eye for the high school English syllabus market are celebrating: Suddenly detached from pesky copyright concerns, new editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel are going to print at multiple publishers. But the opportunity to re-release Gatsby brings with it a new challenge: figuring out how to package a book whose original cover has become iconic. “Everybody knows the original with the spooky eyes,” says Greil Marcus, the author of Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the...
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