{"podcast":{"title":"Cannonball with Wesley Morris","slug":"cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","podcast_index_feed_id":800699,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/JJrAJ_VY","website_url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4105a47a-42e5-4ccc-887a-832af7989986/f744f7d3-52bd-4733-ae4a-818042909996/3000x3000/cannonball-album-20art-3000px-0605.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":46,"summary":"Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699"},"episode":{"title":"Our Last Chance to Talk ‘Gatsby’","slug":"our-last-chance-to-talk-gatsby","published_at":"2025-12-25T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/our-last-chance-to-talk-gatsby","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b/episodes/a12be867-e7fe-4fc6-b428-907b2ffc47c2/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b&awEpisodeId=a12be867-e7fe-4fc6-b428-907b2ffc47c2&feed=JJrAJ_VY","summary":"When a book publisher asked Wesley to write an introduction for a new edition of “The Great Gatsby,” he was confused. So many people had already written about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel since it was first published in 1925. What could he add? And why him? But eventually, he realized he does in fact have a special relationship with this book. He has read it in three different phases of life, and each time, it seemed profound in an entirely new way. So in the final week of the book’s 100th anniversary, Wesley talks to the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, about why all three of them have found themselves in a decades-long relationship with this book.","meta_description":"When a book publisher asked Wesley to write an introduction for a new edition of “The Great Gatsby,” he was confused. So many people had already written a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2905,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/episodes/our-last-chance-to-talk-gatsby/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/our-last-chance-to-talk-gatsby.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}