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What makes Gone With the Wind so emotionally powerful — even when it evokes longing for a world we’d never want to return to?
In this week’s Huddle, I was pleased to lead a lively, provocative discussion on nostalgia: how writers use it, why readers respond so deeply to it, and how easily it can slip from emotional connection into manipulation.
From Margaret Mitchell’s antebellum South to Marcel Proust’s madeleine cakes, from The Great Gatsby to Downton Abbey and even modern politics, the Huddle explores how nostalgia shapes our sense of identity, memory, and storytelling.
Books mentioned:
Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell
In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust
The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confederates in the Attic — Tony Horwitz
Do join us for our weekly Writer's Huddles, included in your Full Membership!
What makes Gone With the Wind so emotionally powerful — even when it evokes longing for a world we’d never want to return to?
In this week’s Huddle, I was pleased to lead a lively, provocative discussion on nostalgia: how writers use it, why readers respond so deeply to it, and how easily it can slip from emotional connection into manipulation.
From Margaret Mitchell’s antebellum South to Marcel Proust’s madeleine cakes, from The Great Gatsby to Downton Abbey and even modern politics, the Huddle explores how nostalgia shapes our sense of identity, memory, and storytelling.
Books mentioned:
Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell
In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust
The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Confederates in the Attic — Tony Horwitz
Do join us for our weekly Writer's Huddles, included in your Full Membership!
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