Pop the champagne and join and Jeff and Rebecca as they revisit F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in today’s episode of Zero to Well-Read. They dig into how it became a classic, why it’s all over high school reading lists (and why that’s the exact wrong time to read it), and what it still has to say about the American Dream. This episode originally aired in September of last year as the launch title for the podcast, and listening back gave me all the warm fuzzies. We were shiny, we were new, we didn’t have a dedicated email address! We’ve had a great time diving deep into books with y’all since then and welcome all the newcomers who’ve joined our book club/English class hybrid since. As we return to the Real Housewives of West Egg today, I’ve rounded up some title trivia, some Gatsby readalikes and remixes, and Stewie Griffin’s take on Gatsby for the not-easily-offended. We’ll learn how Gatsby was almost a flop, and what it has to do with Jeff Goldblum’s love life. …