Jay Gatsby Takes Issue with New Podcast

COLUMBUS, Ohio , April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — “It puts me in a bad light,” says the fictional character and American cultural icon of wealth and excess. “It’s not that it’s poorly done – on the contrary – the actors are top notch, the sound effects and music are brilliant. But it makes me out to be a perfect fool!” Mr. Gatsby’s comments came as a response to the now-popular podcast radio play of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, The Great Gatsby, that now has been downloaded over 20,000 times. The novel, which was adapted by Richard John Albert (author of Bad Actors: True Crime Theatrics) and performed by the Columbus Civic Theater, has been available for free on the theater’s website, columbuscivic.org since January of 2022.