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Lima Public Library Book Reviews
LIBRARY OPEN
• The Lima Public Library has reopened. Main library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Branch hours are noon to 6 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays, except Lafayette is closed Wednesdays.
• The main library has curbside pick up. Hours are 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Call 567-712-5239, contact the library through Facebook Messenger or put a hold on a book through the online catalog. Give workers 24 hours to gather. Park near the main entrance. Call when you arrive, and your items will be brought out.
By Steve Donoghue Correspondent
F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs 1925 novel âThe Great Gatsbyâ entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2021. The book is already a staple of American life; it has been taught in schools for decades, and Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptations starring handsome actors have been followed, generation after generation, by other Hollywood blockbuster movie adaptations starring other handsome actors. But now,
anybody can print and sell their own edition of what is widely considered to be one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century.Â
Dozens of publishers have been waiting eagerly for this moment, and as a result, the U.S. book market is now flooded with new editions of âGatsby.â Hardcover editions, pocket paperback editions, annotated editions, illustrated editions â everyone with an oar in the water is hoping to cash in on the book without paying duties to the original publisher, Scribner.
January 20, 2021
THE WASHINGTON POST – Last week, the copyright on F Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby expired, so anyone can now use its characters and particulars to fashion their own version, much as Jean Rhys did in
Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë’s
Jane Eyre. That’s why we just saw the release of
Nick, by Michael Farris Smith, in which the narrator of Fitzgerald’s classic novel, Nick Carraway, tells his own backstory.
But no one needs to wait for copyright expiration to use Fitzgerald’s plot, that time-honoured story in which a person on the fringe of high society becomes entangled in its enchantments and perfidies. In his second novel,
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