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.
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Friday, June 5, 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby House Hits the Market
By Dianna Dilworth
According 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.
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.
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.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Best Summer Books 2015
We've waited a long time for this summer, and with its approach comes our annual selection of the season's books that we're most looking forward to reading and anxious to share. Summer's a time to catch up with old friends, like Stephen King, whose Finders Keepers, a new crime fiction novel, follows last summer'sMr. Mercedes. Haper Lee's second book, Go Set a Watchman, arrives after 55 years with all the usual suspects from her eternal blockbuster; and Judy Blume tackles the early 50s with In the Unlikely Event, her first adult novel since 1998. Things that go bump in the night are always fitting summer fare and The Decagon House Murders, a Japanese mystery by Yukito Ayatsuji, will have you locking your screen doors. And how about learning something this summer? Dig into the art world with Grayson Perry's Playing to the Gallery, or figure out today's dating world with comedian Aziz Ansari. But for pure sensation, pick upNew Yorker writer William Finnegan's memories of the beach, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Just try and keep the sand out of your book …and out of your sandwich. -Louisa Ermelino, Reviews Director
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Why I Read the Most Controversial Books in Print Today
By Mike Harvkey |
May 08, 2015 Publishers Weekly
The last time I saw my best childhood friend, we got in a fight over a book. We were standing around outside the community center, taking a break from the high school reunion I’d flown back to Missouri to attend. I’d long known that my friend was an extremist. He was the first of us to drink, to smoke weed, snort crank; he wanted everything, in heaping helpings. While most of us dabbled, he dove, hard head first. Being his wingman through high school and for a few years after was dangerous and fun. By the time of this reunion, though, he’d beat all of his addictions with God—for starters. Standing in the cold so he could smoke (his only remaining vice), he wanted to convert me, and his secret weapon was a book. But it wasn’t the Bible.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Booksellers, Librarians Push for Passage of USA Freedom Act
By Rachel Deahl |
May 12, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Audiobooks: Where They’ve Been & Where They’re Headed
Audio Publishers Association executive director Michele Cobb on the future of the audiobook industry. April 2015 By Michele Cobb, Executive Director, APA
I always refer to audio publishers as digital pioneers. Long before the rise of the ebook we sat in stuffy conference rooms and discussed the importance of good metadata and the best methods for file transfers or website downloads or digital sampling. With the turning of the 20th century and the introduction of this funky little device called the iPod the audiobook world was revolutionized. Suddenly, audiobooks stopped taking up physical space. People could carry 20 audiobooks wherever they went. And they did.
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Friday, May 8, 2015
Most Parents Prefer Print: INFOGRAPHIC
First Book has created an infographic to show that “Parents Value Printed Books.” According to the company’s blog post, “a recent study by the Pew Research Center shows that 9 out of 10 parents of children under 18 say it’s important to them that their children read printed books.” We’ve embedded the entire graphic below for you to explore further. To learn more about kids and reading, check out Scholastic’s “What Do Kids Want in Books?” piece and BookUp’s “Reading Among Teenagers in Decline” piece.
Monday, May 4, 2015
When it comes to books, libraries and publishers should be in it together, argues a leading marketing expert



Apr 03, 2015 for Publishers Weekly

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