Screenshot of the opening page of ‘Green-Lighting Gatsby: Austere Modernisms, Exuberant Avant-Gardes, and their Orgastic Futures’ by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, in Inflationary Modernities: Literature, Culture and Economy, ed. Wayne Stables and Kieran Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), pp. 22-47.
Around two and a half years ago I asked @videotroph.bsky.social if he’d like to write something about #TheGreatGatsby and inflation with me. Thinking, researching, chatting about, and writing this together was a joy and I’m really proud of the result. 1/