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:
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.
