The author of “No Book but the World” says the last book that made her furious was “The Da Vinci Code” — “At the end of every chapter, I’d glance up and announce in increasingly disgusted tones: ‘What schlock!’ ”
“Gatsby to Garp,” an exhibition of first editions, galleys and letters at the Morgan Library & Museum, focuses on a literary period when the modern American bookstore and inventive book jackets were in their prime.