Richard Webb Jr. joi ns Lit Chat to discuss his book Boats Against the Current. \;Boats Against the Current is an essential docum ent for anyone who has read The Great Gatsby and wondered at the fantas tical world whose story it tells. After Barbara Probst Solomon wrote in a piece for \;The New Yorker\, that Westport was the real setti ng for \;The Great Gatsby\, Richard Webb Jr. knew he had to researc h the claim. Webb grew-up in Westport and always felt a connection between Fitzgerald's work and the town. \;
\nBoats Against the Current: The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda is the companio n piece to \;Gatsby i n Connecticut\, a documentary about \;F. Scott and Zelda's wi ld summer of 1920. \;
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