I Eat My Heart Out Alone.

Every Great Work Of Art ... Is A Celebration, An Act Of Insubordination Against The Betrayals, Horrors And Infidelities Of Life.

You Don't Read Gatsby, I Said, To Learn Whether Adultery Is Good Or Bad But To Learn About How Complicated Issues Such As Adultery And Fidelity And Marriage Are. A Great Novel Heightens Your Senses And Sensitivity To The Complexities Of Life And Of Individuals, And Prevents You From The Self-righteousness That Sees Morality In Fixed Formulas About Good And Evil.

The Stories From Iran's Present And Past Are Reminders That Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights, Or Fundamentalism, Fascism And Terrorism Are Not Geographically And Culturally Determined, But Universal.

With Fear Come The Lies And The Justifications That, No Matter How Convincing, Lower Our Self-esteem.

The Best Work Of Literature To Represent The American Dream Is 'the Great Gatsby' By F. Scott Fitzgerald. It Shows Us How Dreaming Can Be Tainted By Reality, And That If You Don't Compromise, You May Suffer.