This week’s Books in Motion: Every week Logos employees search for interesting interviews or performances from authors and books.
We decided to bring you books in motion a day early this week, because we just couldn’t wait a day to share this one.
Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world.
Author and teacher Frank McCourt dies at 78.
Amazon reaches into Kindle bookshelves to erase purchased copies of 1984.
Game of Thrones will become an HBO show.
Indiebound updates their iPhone application.
Charlize Theron pushes negotiations to see Atlas Shrugged as a T.V. mini series, maybe.
Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda by Kathy Cook becomes Girl Soldier with Uma Thurman.
Eat, Pray, Love becomes a movie, and Gilbert’s ex plans to tell his side of the story.
English author Gordon Burn dies at 61.
Opium’s Literary Death Match begins in London (catch it in SF August 14th).
The New Yorker mentions two creative possibilities for e-readers.
Following the Justice Department’s lead, the European Commission begins to investigate the Google settlement for orphaned books.
Twilight will become a graphic novel.
The Guardian UK discusses the one that got away…
An interview with Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen.
Salman Rushdie recalls a dinner with Thomas Pynchon.
Zachary Gordon will star in the film adaptation of best selling childrens book Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Leonard Cohen announces another tour.
EMI and iTunes celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s Space Oddity.
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Chris Rosenau will perform a live score for Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.
Adam Yauch announces he has cancer, the Beastie Boys cancel their tour during his treatment.
Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo, Will Oldham will participate in a Chris Knox covers album.
The trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has been released.
As a student, Walter Cronkite interviewed Gertrude Stein.
Author of 23 books of Greek and Latin literature maritime history, Lionel Casson, dies at 94.
British High Court rules that Google is not a publisher.
USA Today best seller lists will now include Kindle sales.
Mark Bittman, author of Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes and columnist for the New York Times Food section has released his yearly 101 summer recipes: 101 Simple Salads for the Season. Last year’s picnic recipes blew me away, and I have been impatiently awaiting the new 101 release every since. I can admit it. I have a crush on Mark Bittman. The recipes are exactly what I like. Simple and descriptive, instead of complicated and precise. Give me a list of ingredients and a couple of verbs and I’m ready to go, give me a tally of tsps cups cook times and oven temperatures and my eyes start to glaze over. For this reason, the 101 recipes, which are short descriptive paragraphs, more like ideas than recipes, have become my favorite cookbook of sorts. Including ideas such as carrots and blueberries, couscous oranges and honey, salted raw asparagus slivers, fennel and prune plums, his combinations are both exotic and common sense. I find myself saying over and over “wow! that sounds amazing!” paired immediately afterward with “of course! how simple!” The article also features a video link where you can see him making several salad dressings, including my favorite: lemon, salt, and olive oil. I have to admit that sometimes reading Mark Bittman’s column is simply a justification for the way I like to eat and prepare food; but what an excellent justification it is!
If you like recipes and want more, check out his book Food Matters, available now at Logos.
Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
Mark Bittman
$25.00
This week’s Books in Motion: Every week Logos employees search for interesting interviews or performances from authors and books.
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In celebration of moon landing’s 40th anniversary, we here at Logos would like to present a little video compare contrast. My how far we have come since 1902!
Georges Méliès vs. Pink Floyd
Georges Méliès in 1902
Pink Floyd in 1969
Not surprisingly, the 40th anniversary of the moon landing coincides with the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Who does a better job remembering the original?
USA today and NASA vs. Flight of the Concords.
USA today
Flight of the Concords
Novelist and essayist Paul Hemphill dies at 73.
In Cornwall, England, people are bidding on Virginia Woolfe’s inspiration (and it sells for £80k), while authors band together to save T.S. Elliot’s.
Nick Cave reads from his new book The Death of Bunny Munro.
Residents of Forks, Washington are pleasantly overwhelmed with Twilight fans.
Os Mutantes streams a new song.
Harry Potter breaks midnight records with $22.2 million.
The Guardian UK hosts a Faber & Faber retrospective.
Barak Obama’s books Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope are declared “potentially detrimental to national security” by a supermax prison in Colorado.
Andrew Lindstrom posts 45 beautifully designed book covers on his blog wellmedicated .
Roland A. Vierra is close to his childhood dream of owning a bookstore.
Quirk Books announced their next mash-up with a trailer.
The Guardian UK talks about the rise of dead authors, but not the zombie kind.
Publisher, editor, and co-founder of Locus, Charles N. Brown dies at 72.
Poet, critic, writer and reviewer, Naomi Lewis dies at 97.
The Dodos stream their album early in order to compete with an album leak.
Beck continues to release new music on his website.
Fans bid on becoming a character in Frederick Forsyth’s new book.
Author and Publisher Jane Weinberger dies at 91.
Walt Whitman inspires Levis.
Michael Palin is writing a new novel. We expect it won’t be about the Spanish inquisition, but then again…
Harry Potter breaks the midnight record with $2.2 million.
Hong Kong becomes the epicenter for banned Chinese books.
Publishers take book clubs to YouTube.
Mother of Canadian science fiction, Phyllis Gotlieb, dies at 83.
The Vatican falls for Harry Potter and Oscar Wilde.
The Guardian UK hosts a gallery of covers from the International Times.
Yann Martel sells his manuscript on the Holocaust to Spiegel & Grau for $3 million.
A former NASA researcher argues that science fiction books were critical to putting man on the Moon.
Animal Collective license the first legal Grateful Dead sample ever.
Independent bookstores take on the global warming and the economic crisis in this short info-film from Jay O’berski of Little Green Pig and Jim Haverkamp.
We just got a shipment of amazing books from Chelsea Green, publishers of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. Among the gems are books on preserving food, natural heating, wind power, seed saving, and sustainable gardening and cooking.
My two particular favorites are Wild Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz, and Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning by the gardeners and farmers of Terre Vivant. Wild Fermentation covers a wild variety of topics, from kombucha to kim chi, beer making and mead, to sauerkrauts and miso. Katz doesn’t shy away from the health benefits, but unlike most that emphasize nutrition, Katz is a huge supporter of experimentation, making the
book and it’s suggestions much more fun and playful than most canning or preserving books. Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning is a classic book on food preservation without nutrition loss. From burying cabbages in the winter, to building your own root cellars, to lactic fermentation of just about anything, this book will give you the understanding and foundation to feel more comfortable with food storage methods. Originally published as Keeping Food Fresh, this book was briefly out of print but had such a cult following that it was still selling on rare book sites for over $100!!
Now Available at Logos
Wild Fermentation
By Sandor Ellix Katz
$25.00
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning
By The Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivant
$25.00
Quirk Books, publisher of the surprise bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is set to announce their next mash-up at midnight tonight. You can be the first to know the new title by adding them to your facebook friend list, or see the book trailer tomorrow on YouTube. You can even print two different posters on their website in celebration of the book’s success.
Anticipation for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies started in early February with a blog post in the New York Times, and began building with reviews and plugs in news papers all across the US and UK. With it’s release in early June, it became an immediate success, reaching No. 3 in the New York Times bestseller list.
Author Seth Grahame-Smith, a film producer and author of How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn, took the plot for the novel at the suggestion of his editor at Quirk Books, Jason Rekulak. Grahame-Smith will not be participating further in the mash-up series, but according to interviews, one of his follow-up titles, if not the next, will be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He will make his debut into comic books with Marvel Zombies Return: Hulk with artist Richard Elson. Below is a very insightful and entertaining interview with him for the Authors@Google series.
Available now at Logos
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
By Seth Grahame-Smith
$12.95
Quirk Books
Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book world.
The winners of the International Book Binding Competion with this year’s theme of “water” were announced.
The world’s oldest Bible is now online.
After 44 years, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is going to be published.
Much ado is being made over Margo Lanagan’s book Tender Morsels in the UK.
Nicholas Sparks coaches a 7 title winning relay team.
DC goes old school with the Wednesday Comics.
Exiled Soviet author Vasily Aksyonov passed away at 76.
Michael Jackson had over 10,000 books in his library.
Haruki Murakami talks about George Orwell, the Aum Shinrikyo, and his new book 1Q84.
Edith Wharton predicts her future.
Philip Pullman speaks out against the new vetting policies.