News This Week (December 19)
Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world…
Karen O. is nominated for Golden Globe for Best Original Score – Motion Picture, for Where the Wild Things Are.
Paul Auster’s Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story is reillustrated.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will become a movie?
Who killed the Golden Compass?
Random House claims the e-book rights to all their backlist titles; the Author’s Guild cleverly refutes it in what promises to be a war.
Jeanette Winterson rewrites the Christmas story, as a donkey.
Stephen King pays for 150 soldiers to come home for the holidays.
Greg Mortenson speaks out against the war in Afghanistan.
Publishers Weekly is criticized for making a beautiful photograph offensive.
Stephen R. Covey signs exclusive e-rights with Amazon.
Matt Kish illustrates every page of Moby Dick.
Novelist Elizabeth Berridge dies at 89.
Deborah Treisman talks about editing David Foster Wallace.
Natalie Portman will star in and produce the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Serbian master of the interactive novel, Milorad Pavic, dies at 80.
Thom Yorke crashes the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Novelist C. D. B. Bryan dies at 73.
Scientists can identify literary fingerprints.
Laredo, Texas will be the largest U.S. city without a bookstore.
Novelist Milorad Pavic dies at 80.
Philosopher and author John Edwin Smith dies at 88.
Children’s author Margaret B. Young dies at 88.
Local professor and bookbinder George R. Kane dies at 96.
Further substantiating our claim that we see some of the rarest and coolest books on the West Coast, we have recently acquired many First Edition and Signed First Edition literary titles by the likes of Alice Walker and Larry McMurtry. Currently, we have a First Edition copy of The Color Purple in our Rare Books case adjacent to the Buy Desk. In addition, we are also currently showcasing many Signed First Edition McMurtry titles (sorry! no Lonesome Dove) in our Rare Books case. We are still progressing through the large cache of treasure from whence these books originated, so we’ll be sure to keep you posted on the latest acquisitions! To view any of these titles, simply ask our staff at the Buy Desk or contact the Rare Books department. 
For this week’s Books In Motion we bring you a short stop-animation from Cristóbal León Dooner, Joaquín Cociña, and Niles Atallah. Niles worked at Logos years ago, and has since moved to Chile where he has become a documentary film maker and translator. His documentary film 
This week we bring you a special edition of our weekly picks as a way of highlighting some of the amazing, beautiful pocket sized books we are carrying at the front desk. From various publishers, focusing on literary, political, philosophical, and critical theory, the portable well made books make perfect small gifts for any book enthusiast.
THE FIG: A Fruit of Ancient Origin! Here we feature an amazing 1947 publication – not intended to be a textbook or manual on practical fig culture, but a loving ode to the large, deciduous shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region. One of the first plants cultivated by humans, figs are one of the highest plant sources of calcium and fiber. A key player in Greek Mythology, the Bible and the Quran. AND HOW ABOUT THAT LUSCIOUS INTERIOR??? There’s just so much to love about the fig. Come explore with us! Ask any of our staff at the Buy Desk, or contact the Rare Book Department or 
