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Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Imagine you're a reader. You're wandering through a bookstore and lots of books, and you see a book titled "Trimalchio in West Egg" and you see one titled The "Great Gatsby."Which are you going to pick up? Thomas Wolfe:
Gatsby! Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
That's why Scott changed his original title. He knew it needed a bit more meat
Imagine you're a reader. You're wandering through a bookstore and lots of books, and you see a book titled "Trimalchio in West Egg" and you see one titled The "Great Gatsby."Which are you going to pick up? Thomas Wolfe:
Gatsby! Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
That's why Scott changed his original title. He knew it needed a bit more meat
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Here imagine you're a reader
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You're wandering through a bookstore and lots of books
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and you see a book titled trimalchio in west egg
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and you see one titled the great gatsby
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Which are you going to pick up
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Gatsby
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That's why Scott changed his original title
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He knew it needed a bit more meat
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Movie Summary
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
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Thomas Wolfe
