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News This Week (January 30th)

Every week Logos employees scour the internet for the most interesting news from their departments…

Martin Amis calls for euthanasia booths.

Read some Lord Byron: from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto I, On This Day I Complete My 36th Year, The Destruction of Sennacherib

The largest book in the world goes on tour.

Read some poems by William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; from The Idiot Boy; from Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798.

Jonathan Ross leaves the BBC to become a comic book author.

Dictionaries are banned in a southern California school over the inclusion of “oral sex”.

Read some poems by Robert Burns: Mary Morison; To a Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church; Song Composed in August; Address to the Toothache.

Read a short story by Julian Barnes: Sleeping with John Updike.

J. D. Salinger dies at 91, and a lot is written about it.

Howard Zinn dies the same day at age 87, and a little less is written about him:

His life.

More on his life.

And more.

Zinn and the end of an era.

Zinn in action.

Zinn and the romance of history.

Condoleezza Rice will write her memoir.

A photo gallery of writer and musician suicides.

Martin Amis criticizes JM Coetzee.

News This Week (January 23rd)

Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world…

Mystery writer Robert B. Parker dies at 77.

The international children’s charity Plan enlists authors to raise money awareness.

Things William S. Burroughs owned.

A look at Apocalypse Literature.

Ursula K. Le Guin leads the revolt on the Google Book Settlement, while the Steinbeck and Guthrie families support it.

The secret history of typography in the OED.

Front man from Bon Iver, Justin Vernon, will open a music venue.

Howl opens the Sundance Film Festival.

See James Franco as Allen Ginsberg.

The history of rights holders in the Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle estate.

The battle for digital books really gets moving with the anticipation of the Apple tablet.

Co-founder of SOHO Press, Laura Chapman Hrusk, dies at 74.

Author of Love Story, Erich Segal, dies at 72.

Haruki Murakamai’s Pinball, 1973 is back in print, in English, in Japan.

Martin Amis talks about writing Time’s Arrow.

Martin Scorsese looks to make The Invention of Hugo Cabret a film.

Bloomsbury USA finally concedes to change the cover of Jaclyn Dolamore’s novel over a race row.

Five Dials celebrates the life of David Foster Wallace with  Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others.

What the Lakers are reading.

Life magazine celebrates famous literary drunks and addicts.

Read Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn, Sleep and Poetry,  and Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats.

News This Week (January 16th)

Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world…

Arthur C. Clarke, the Futuroligist.

On the censorship of Joseph Conrad.

Political cartoonist who depicted Muhammad as a suicide bomber, Kurt Westergaard, escapes assination.

Kanye West resolves to follow in the footsteps of Maya Angelou.

Sex books top the charts for most pirated digital books.

Slavic scholar who worked with Orwell in translating Animal Farm into Ukrainian, Ihor Sevcenko, dies at 87.

Katherine Patterson succeeds Jon Sciezka as the National Ambassador for Young People.

Yoko Ono will write a book on John Lennon.

Joe Penhall writes about Cormac McCarthy’s reaction to his adaptation of The Road.

Musician Jay Retard dies at 29.

Censorship: children are in peril!

The Guardian UK Books Blog introduces a new series on literary theory.

Oxmoor House is recalling DIY home repair and gardening books.

The seven greatest books we will never read.

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

Quirk Books announces a new classic “Android Karenina”.

Jonathan Lethem takes The Guardian UK on a tour of his Brooklyn.

Google apologizes to Chinese authors for digitizing books without permission.

Co-author of The Ugly American, William J. Lederer dies at 97.

Read a short story from T. C. Boyle.

More Cormac McCarthy film adaptations are on their way.

French authors continue a 2-year plagiarism fight.

See some excellent book trailers.