Topic: F. Scott Fitzgerald

'Steve Jobs' and 'The Help' dominate reading lists in many American cities

Data gathered by Nielsen BookScan for The Daily Beast show many of the same titles are popular in American cities – but exceptions include 'Heaven Is For Real' and 'The Great Gatsby.'

How the 1 percent lives: Yes, the rich take more candy from kids, study finds

A Berkeley study conducted seven tests to gauge the ethical behaviors of different economic classes. It finds that the rich are more likely to cut somebody off in traffic and lie to get ahead.

Valentine's Day: 10 literary lessons in love

From 'Much Ado About Loving' by Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly, 10 lessons in love from literary classics.

The 50 best movies of all time

From film critics Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza's new book 'The Greatest Movies Ever,' their picks for the 50 greatest films

2012 movies: 10 to look for

Hollywood's already looking ahead to the movies for this year -- here are 10 of the most anticipated

“We are what we read”: 4 lessons from David McCullough

Here are four pieces of advice from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author David McCullough.

Hemingway's Boat

From global acclaim to suicide: Paul Hendrickson examines the three final decades of Ernest Hemingway.

Gossip Girl season finale was a total surprise

Make no mistake, 'The Wrong Goodbye' was easily the best Gossip Girl episode of the season.

'Gatsby mansion' to get wrecking ball

Gatsby mansion – or at least the one some say helped inspire the novel – is beyond repair. Five $10 million homes on Long Island will replace 'Great Gatsby' mansion.

J.D. Salinger biographer: "new" Salinger works coming soon?

J.D. Salinger biographer Kenneth Slawenski is "very hopeful" that “new” works by Salinger will soon be available.

Banned Books Week: Why these 10 classics got kicked out of class

Is this is a roundup of objectionable literature – or a Great Books roster? The same titles that some call great literature others find to be filthy, bad, or dangerous. Here are a handful of the often surprising – and sometimes downright baffling – reasons that objectors around the world wanted to ban these books.

The e-book, the e-reader, and the future of reading

As stone tablets gave way the codex, the future of reading is digital – but will the e-reader and the e-book change the nature of how we read?

Beyond texting while driving: we're car crazy

Tom DeLay's second act is dancing

"Books are magical": I agree

Amazon takes one more step toward in-book advertisements for the Kindle

Fictionalization of Hemingway's early years fetches huge advance

Review: 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

Brad Pitt plays a man aging backward in an anecdote stretched to would-be epic proportions.

What are Americans really reading?

Driftless

A rewarding portrait of rural life from an author silent for more than three decades.

Just in time: Banned Books Week

Following the footsteps of Flannery O'Connor

On this vacation, he and his wife are visiting the stomping grounds of great writers.

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Truly, madly in love with science

The life of inventor Nikola Tesla was strange enough for fiction.

Tesla: Madly in love with science

The real life of inventor Nikola Tesla was strange enough for fiction.