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Green Lights, Yo! 'The Great Gatsby' Is All The Rage Again

Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.24.2012

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I don't know how it happened, but after 80 years F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel "The Great Gatsby" has become the coolest, most talked about thing in the world.

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Close and Not-So-Close Encounters With Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2012

Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors. These might involve seeing novelists at book signings, listening to them give a talk, or visiting homes/museums connected with famous authors of the past.

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Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas From? An Interview with Celia Blue Johnson

Brian Gresko | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Se-Hinton, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Inspiration, JRR Tolkien the Hobbit, Jack Kerouac, Writing, Writing Inspiration, AA Milne, Writing Advice, Mrs. Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

In short, pithy essays, Celia Blue Johnson recounts how the simplest moments -- a trip, an odd job -- inspired some of the most beloved classics of Western literature. I talked with her to hear more about these fascinating accounts.

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How Much Did Fitzgerald Get Paid To Write 'The Great Gatsby'?

Posted 04.06.2012

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If you read a lot of books, you've probably read "The Great Gatsby." Love it or loathe it, it's withstood the test of time and the scoffs of critics, ...

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Lessons We Learned From Mad Men

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Worklife Balance, Workplace | Tagged David Weigand, Gender Roles, New Male Mystique, Stephanie Coontz, Sexism, Tv, Work-Life Balance, Undecided: How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find a Career -- and Life -- That Works for You, The Great Gatsby, Feminism, Facebook, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Women News

Mad Men doesn't pretend that these "career girls" are empowered: These gals are as hemmed in by the intractability of the system as they are by their rigid underwear.

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C-SPAN Is America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Woodward and Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Walter Cronkite, Paul Fahri, Newton Minnow, Vast Wasteland, Civil War, New Deal, Ronald Reagan, Book Tv, C-Span, Ernest Hemingway, Democracy, Televising the Supreme Court, Free Press, Brian Lamb, George Washington, Citizens United, Abraham Lincoln, Rob Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow, Susan Swain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Freedom, Supreme Court, News Cycle, Informed Citizenry, Katharine Graham, Ted Turner, Franklin Roosevelt, Media News

While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.

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Fitzgerald's Great American Novel Is Going British

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 02.09.2012

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The green light at the end of Daisy's dock continues to shine on, as "Great Gatsby" fever spreads across the Atlantic. Though Baz Luhrmann's 3D ad...

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Marianne Gingrich Gave Newt Gingrich the Best Sound Bite of His Campaign

Vicky Ward | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Marianne Gingrich Interview, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Gingrich, South Carolina Primary, Newt Gingrich, Marianne Gingrich Open Marriage, Newt Gingrich Campaign, Gop Primary, Women News

Men leave women for younger women all the time. But because she tried to attack Newt at an obviously vulnerable and crucial moment for him, the tactic has backfired. The world -- or the world in South Carolina -- pities him.

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Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22

David Finkle | Posted 03.06.2012

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A large segment of the letters -- the first written when he was not quite 8 -- are juvenilia and could be the sentiments of any young whippersnapper. Yet there are occasional hints at what would become the acclaimed Hemingway mode of between-hard-covers expression.

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She's So Unusual: The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Paris, Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, F Scott Fitzgerald, Books, Book Reviews, Vassar, Caroline Preston, Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Video, Books News

Charming and a little different, Caroline Preston's new novel, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt is a hybrid work where the pictures do the talking.

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Owner Of Famous Paris Bookstore Dies

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Shakespeare and Company, George Whitman, Sylvia Beach, Don Quixote of the Latin Quarter, Paris Bookstore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

PARIS — George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-la...

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Literary Seductions

Allison Hill | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Future of Reading, Books, Haruki Murakami, Literary Seductions, The Future of Books, Seduction, Amazon Kindle, Vroman's Bookstore, Bookstores, Fitzgerald, David Sedaris, Joan Didion, Mark Danielewski, Digital Content, Allison Hill, Reading, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

I once slept with a man because he gave me a copy of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Before you judge me, read the book. It's lyrical and seductive and changes the way you think about reality, about life.

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PHOTOS: Group Exhibition Explores Underbelly Of Transmutation

Posted 11.28.2011

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The words 'Tender is the Night' underwent a sort of linguistic alchemy as they were appropriated from John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' to F. Scott F...

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The Necessary Death of Romance

Judith Acosta | Posted 01.02.2012

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When I speak of romance in this sense, it is not just a reference to that flurry of the heart when we are falling in love. It is there then, as well. But it is more than that.

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Happy Birthday Nathanael West!

Joe Woodward | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Dorothy Parker, Alive Inside the Wreck, Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust, Miss Lonelyhearts, Literary Biography, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

As Dorothy Parker said, and I agree, "Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West."

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A Dearth of Mirth at the End of Many Great Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Unhappy Endings, Wilkie Collins, Classic Novels, The House of Mirth, George Orwell, Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

After just finishing The House of Mirth, I'm reminded once again that many great novels don't have happy endings.

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How To Make A Real Daiquiri, And The Best White Rums To Make It With

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.26.2011

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A properly made daiquiri, like a martini or a Manhattan, is one of the most elegant cocktails you'll ever drink. A deceptively simple alchemy of three ingredients that create true magic in a glass.

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E-Books: Unintended Consequences

Warren Adler | Posted 10.21.2011

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The number of self-published e-books has surpassed and will continue to surpass books published through the time-honored process of editing and distribution that has been the practice of publishing companies for centuries.

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The Art of Not Finishing a Famous Book

Dave Astor | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Marcel Proust, Famous Books, Erich Maria Remarque, Classic Novels, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Charles Dickens, Holocaust, Isbn, George Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

I realize that continuing to slog through a novel that says "stop reading me" after 100 pages may pay dividends when I reach the end of the book. Dense can turn into sophisticated, confusing into illuminating.

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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What Your Favorite Author Says About You

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Book News, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Favorite Authors, William Faulkner, Richard Price, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

We know the cliche goes, “You are what you eat," but it should really be, "You are what you read.” Or rather, who you read. One's favorite author ...

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America's Drunkest Writer

The Daily Beast | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Alcoholic Authors, Drunk Writers, Drunk Authors, On Booze, A Moveable Feast, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

F. Scott Fitzgerald was kept in champagne in the '20s, already a crumbling alcoholic in the '30s, and dead by the end of '40. The great American novel...

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Which Other Authors Should Have Literary Towns Built In Their Honor?

newyorker.com | Posted by Ian Crouch | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Ivo Andric, Herman Melville, Philip Roth, Andricgrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Literary Towns, Books News

Over the years, several of the countries that made up the former Yugoslavia—and the ethnic groups within them, including Serbs and Croats—have cla...

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Authors In Bathing Suits: Who Knew They Were This Hot?

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Authors in Bathing Suits, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Anne Sexton, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

We don’t know about you, but now that it’s officially summertime, we want to spend as much time in our bathing suits as humanly possible, and so, ...

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Spotted Reading In Public: What's Everyone Else Reading This Summer?

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Video, Junot Diaz, Henry Kissinger, Angela's Ashes, Summer Books, Summer Reads, David Foster Wallace, William Faulkner, On China, Infinite Jest, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Frank Mccourt, The Sound and the Fury, Spotted Reading in Public, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Books News

After a long, harsh winter, it is finally really warming up outside. And, boy, does it feel great! We're sure you're daydreaming of the exotic vaca...

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