In this episode my guest is the author Michael Farris Smith. We talk about his most recent novel Nick, which tells the story of what happens to Nick Carraway, narrator of The Great Gatsby, before we meet him F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel. The novel Nick is both finished and published, but we talk about why Michael was compelled to flesh out (or finish!) Nick's character, and what it was like to have to wait to publish while the clock ticked down on Gatsby's copyright... 

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