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NYC auction of 1st edition of 'The Great Gatsby'

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:48:12 -0400

NEW YORK - From a new movie to theme parties, interest in the Jazz Age classic "The Great Gatsby" is everywhere.

Cannes: James Franco builds a bookish filmography

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:14:43 -0400

CANNES, France - James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf - and a very respectable one, at that.

Quiz: Match text-message versions of famous lines...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:06 -0400

By BARTHOLOMEW SULLIVAN - QUIZ

Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:55:51 -0400

CANNES, France - Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

DiCaprio, Spielberg open a stormy Cannes

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:53:15 -0400

CANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera.

DiCaprio's 'Gatsby' brings 1920s glamor to Cannes

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:29:33 -0400

CANNES, France - Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began to understand it.

For Baz Luhrmann, Cannes is a birthplace

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:27:32 -0400

CANNES, France - Baz Luhrmann might never have gone on to direct "The Great Gatsby" - or anything else, for that matter - if not for the Cannes Film Festival.

Isla Fisher packs one-two summer-movie punch

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:33:45 -0400

LAS VEGAS - Now you see her - twice.

Leo and Tobey, finally together in 'Gatsby'

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:11:34 -0400

NEW YORK - Tobey Maguire didn't have to go far when Leonardo DiCaprio called him about meeting to discuss an adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" with Baz Luhrmann.

10 Things to Know for Friday

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:03:19 -0400

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:01:48 -0400

Fitzgerald's Hollywood ending followed sad death

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:56:08 -0400

LOS ANGELES - Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revivals in literary history.

Ever elusive, 'Gatsby' evades Hollywood's grasp

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:46:08 -0400

NEW YORK - F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is short, almost novella size. It features larger-than-life characters, glamorous extravagance and dramatic demises. On its surface, it's the most Hollywood-friendly of the great American novels.

Review: All sparkle, no soul in ' Great Gatsby'

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:39:29 -0400

If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it's "The Great Gatsby." After all, who was the character of Jay Gatsby himself if not a spinner of grandiose tales and a peddler of lavish dreams?

Murakami: Relationships in new book intrigued me

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:11:29 -0400

KYOTO, Japan - In a rare public appearance, respected Japanese writer Haruki Murakami said his latest novel was an experiment and grew longer than expected as he developed a desire to expand on side characters while writing.

USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:31:38 -0400

1. "The Hit" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:31:14 -0400

Best-Selling Books Week Ended April 28th.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:01:45 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie "The Great Gatsby."