Tom Lutz, author of 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia, featured on The Nation discussing books of 1925 that are not The Great Gatsby.

Tom Lutz, author of 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia, featured on The Nation discussing books of 1925 that are not The Great Gatsby.

May 24th 2025

On this episode of The Nation: 20 minutes without Trump! Nineteen twenty-five is being celebrated this year as the centenary of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzerald—but we’re interested in some of the other books published that year. So we turn to Tom Lutz—his new book, out from Rare Bird Books, is titled 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia.” It’s 800 pages long, and only seven are only 7 are on “Gatsby.”