Book News and New Book Reviews

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Friday, June 5, 2015

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby House Hits the Market

By Dianna Dilworth 
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s former home in Great Neck, the location that inspired his classic novel “The Great Gatsby,” is for sale. The seller is looking to fetch $3.9 for the Long Island home.
gatsbyhouseAccording to the real estate listing, Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda rented the home for two years in the early 1920s. Check it out: "Zelda called it “our nifty little Babbit-home at Great Neck,” and it became their base for parties and visits to even more luxurious homes in the vicinity, which eventually became the class-conscious West Egg and East Egg of “Gatsby.”"

Monday, June 1, 2015

Super Heroes, super fans: Comics see local resurgence

Kevin Phelan, LoHud The Journal News12:59 p.m. EDT May 17, 2015
It wasn't long ago that comic book enthusiasts were largely perceived as basement-dwelling fanatics, confined to obscure hobby shops, annual conventions or dank arcades.
NATIONAL FREE COMIC DAYBut now, comics — and comic fans — are finally getting the spotlight.
Nearly half of last year's highest grossing filmsworldwide were based on comic properties; "Avengers: Age of Ultron" alone made nearly $1 billion in its first weeks of release. And the 2014 New York Comic Convention drew more than 150,000 attendees to the Javitz Center over a four day period for an annual celebration of all things comics.