Did Solange take the pee out of The Great Gatsby?

The singer claims to have made use of a copy of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel when caught short in the desertTo Texas, and another chapter in the storied evolution of the Great American Novel. "True story," tweets the singer Solange Knowles. "Out of gas. Stranded in the Texas desert. Had to pee by the railroad. Wiped with pages of The Great Gatsby."From age-defining national epic to Beyoncé's sister's bogroll: if you had to dramatise the phrase "sic transit gloria mundi", I think you'd struggle to...

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