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A Book Launch with Stand-up Comedy
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The problem with F. Scott Fitzgerald is he
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. In her new novel,
Great
, comedian Sara Benincasa reimagines
The Great Gatsby
as a
contemporary lesbian love story
told by the teenage daughter of a cupcake...
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