ABC3D
A few weeks ago Stacie discovered this amazing book trailer for ABC3D. Yesterday, we found a copy in the store and played with it for a while and decided to feature it for this week’s books in motion:
30th Oct2009
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28th Oct2009
Watching Baseball Smarter
With the World Series starting today, I’d like to highlight an important and vital book related to the art of watching baseball. Now, the main grievance of those who don’t know any better is that baseball is boring. But those who love baseball realize that there is much more going on in any inning – even in between every pitch – than the naysayers realize. Zack Hample’s Watching Baseball Smarter breaks it all down into digestible bites, explaining the basic rules concisely and clearly, and then delving deeper. The infield fly rule, the no doubles defense, he even manages to make the balk comprehensible. Hample obviously has a deep love for the game, and he writes about it with a warm humor and admiration for its little quirks. It’s a valuable reference guide and entertaining book for anyone who enjoys America’s favorite pastime.
Now Available at Logos
Watching Baseball Smarter
by Zack Hample
$14.00
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25th Oct2009
Book Backs: In Retrospect No. 3
It occurred to me the other day while scanning some books from our pulp collection that the backs are sometimes as interesting, if not more interesting, as the fronts. So here is a selection of book backs from our shelves:
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24th Oct2009
News This Week (October 24th)
There is a lot of news this week…
Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world
Bands are demanding to know if their music was used as instruments of torture at GITMO.
Animal Collective fights to protect seals.
Jack Kerouac never wanted to be a cultural icon.
Writers and educators defend fear in children’s stories (especially Where the Wild Things Are) in England.
Watch the leaked, unfinished Kanye West and Spike Jones film We Were Once A Fairy Tale.
Read an interview with Jonathan Lethem.
Kanye West gets community service for an airport camera attack.
Read an exert from David Eggers The Wild Things.
Read a Jonathan Lethem short story.
See Van Gogh’s letter sketches and read the transcriptions.
See images from Robert Crumbs Book of Genisis.
Neil Gaiman and Melvin Burgess explore twitter as storytelling medium.
Nabakov’s novel Laura will be released soon.
Mexico admits to spying on Gabriel García Márquez who they suspected as a Cuban agent.
Spoof biographies of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue are popping up.
The Guardian UK explores Julio Cortazar’s short stories.
See images from Carl Jung’s The Red Book.
Stuart Hample on turning Woody Allen into a comic strip.
On F. Scott Fitzgerald’s preoccupation with money.
Philip Roth takes his own author tour.
See some very old dust jackets.
On T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland.
A new Shel Silverstein children’s book and album will be released.
See sexy science fiction covers.
Get a free copy of Gregory Maguire’s new novel.
The American Bookseller’s Association challenges the price wars between Amazon, Target, Walmart, and others.
Young Adult novelist Norma Fox Mazer dies at 78.
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23rd Oct2009
New in Fiber Arts
October is shaping up as a fine month for new Fiber Crafts books. With Old Man Winter nipping at our heels, now is a fine time to dust off the knitting needles, spinning wheels, looms and crochet hooks.
Among the offering is Hattitude by Cathy Carson. This truly is a paradise for hat knitters with 35 patterns suitable for every mood. Each pattern is designed around an attitude such as “mysterious,” “lively,” “rebellious,” or “whimsical.”
For knitters who love knitting with wool, Clara Parkes’ Knitter’s Book of Wool is brimming with practical information about this wonderful fiber. Parkes’ book covers all aspects of wool, from the properties of fleece to the processing of raw wool to spin and knit. Twenty wonderful knitting patterns are included and range from super soft garments to warm outerwear.
The last selection of the month is AwareKnits, by Vickie Howell and Adrienne Armstrong. All of the patterns are designed with eco-friendly yarns and information about responsible manufacturing procedures, yarn sources and energy consumption.
There are many other great in-store fiber books too numerous to mention, so please stop by the store and check them out.
Available At Logos:
Hattitude by Cathy Carson $19.95
The Knitter’s Book Of Wool by Clara Parkes $30.00
AwareKnits by by Vickie Howell and Adrienne Armstrong $22.95
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22nd Oct2009
The Little Prince Deluxe Pop-Up
Coming next week to Logos is the Deluxe Pop-up version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince! Here at Logos we are SUPER EXCITED about this book, and can’t wait to see it! So excited, in fact, that we looked up the book trailer for the title. So for this week’s books in motion, we bring The Little Prince, Deluxe Pop-Up:
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21st Oct2009
Weekly Picks (October 20)
Every week Logos employees come together to pick the books and music generating the most interest from their departments.
From the New Book Department
1. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
2. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
3. The Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie
4. A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
5. Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vintology by Randall Grahm and Hugh Johnson
From the Used Book Department
1. Trick Baby by Iceberg Slim
2. We Did Porn by Zak Smith
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Edginton, I.N.J. Cubard
4. Ouija Answer Book from Sterling Publishing
5. Cajun Music & Zydeco Photographs from Philip Gould by Philip Gould
From the Music Department
1. Fork in the Road from Neil Young
2. Garden of Joy from Maria Muldaur
3. Hillbilly Hero from Hank Williams
4. Knuckle Down from Ani DiFranco
5. Spirit Chaser from Dead Can Dance
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19th Oct2009
Opa! Logos celebrates its 40th!
There was so much good food!
“The Greek” restaurant played host to our Logos 40th Anniversary, and the food just kept coming (not to mention the wine!). Vasili and his wonderful staff outdid themselves; most people were shocked when the main course arrived, convinced that the hour or two of hearty appetizers was the spread. Anyway, it was the perfect place to celebrate the last 40 years and the next–well, who knows how many, but we certainly started off well-fed into our 41st.
Here are photos from Debbie and Fran…
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17th Oct2009
Its White and Turbid Wake: Happy Birthday Moby-Dick!
On October 18th, raise your “long, barbed steel goblets” and whet your harpoons, for Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is another year older. Live the literature: have a whale steak, embark upon some sort of fiery hunt after a beast with an inscrutable malice sinewing it, philosophize in the crow’s nest, pilot your ship downward to Davy Jones, etc. Or just do some quality quaffing. “Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!”
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17th Oct2009
News This Week (October 17th)
Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world.
Mystery writer Stewart M. Kaminsky dies at 75.
The American Booksellers Association is fighting the Patriot Act to protect reader privacy.
The Guardian celebrates fairy tales.
Brett Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sandt are writing a film.
Read about Nelson Mandela’s archive.
McSweeney’s will do a broadside tribute.
Chinua Achebe thinks Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a sexy bad influence.
This is your brain on reading.
Will Self talks about Roald Dahl.
Comics are making a stir in literary circles.
John Freeman is named editor of Granta.
This is why John Irving has a gun.
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