20th Feb2010

News This Week (February 20th)

by Janina

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

Novelist Dick Francis dies at 89. His life in pictures.

Science Fiction author William Tenn dies at 89.

Jan Pieńkowski writes about the death of pop-up artist Waldo Hunt, 88.

Steve Jobs will help write a book on his life.

Iran blocks book fansite Goodreads.

Charles Dickens’s dog collar is up for auction.

Musical group Animal Collective will take over the Guggenheim.

Peaches’ one-woman performance of Jesus Christ Superstar is shut down.

Someone pays more than €5 million for Casanova’s journals.

On the awesomeness of Platonov.

The Guardian UK loves Bill Watterson too.

Poet Lucille Clifton dies at 73.

Garth Hallberg nominates David Eggers to edit the Paris Review.

10 classics shine as graphic novels.

James Cameron writes a prequel to Avatar.

Faulkner’s liquor legacy.

Best Translated Book Award Shortlist.

Read an excerpt from American Psycho.

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15th Feb2010

New Coloring Books From Pomegranate

by Janina

We have just received some beautiful new coloring books from Pomegranate! Audubon’s birds, Hiroshige’s flowers, Norman Rockwell, Edward Gorey’s The Wuggly Ump, and more! Check out the samples below! ($7.95-$8.95)

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14th Feb2010

Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales – Kay Nielsen

by Janina

As a followup to our last Public Domain Hour, we bring you Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen.  A rare book to find, this is a beautifully illustrated edition.

Download the PDF of Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen

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13th Feb2010

News This Week (February 6th)

by Janina

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

Read a Roberto Bolaño short story.

Rudyard Kipling’s birth home in India will become a museum that excludes him.

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Waterson gives his first interview in 21 years.

Ricky Gervais has 12,000 copies of Flanimals stolen.

Tank Books launches a new series of books in cigarette boxes.

Publisher Macmillan wins a fight with Amazon over the price of their e-books.

Dante’s Inferno becomes a video game.

Grisham and Updike are banned from a Texan prison.

Authors continue to battle against the Google Book Deal.

Timothy McSweeny, inspiration for David Eggers’ literary journal, dies at 67.

Independent bookstores in the UK are closing at a rate of 2 per week.

Two letters on resisting the Siren Call of the Google Book Settlement.

Argentine writer and journalist, Tomás Eloy Martínez, dies at 75.

Neil Gaiman will write a Dr. Who episode.

Read an interview with Douglas Coupland.

Google Voice: the free verse master?

In 2015 Mien Kampf will be published in Germany for the first time since WWII.

The women of J.D. Salinger.

The future of books and the deckle edge.

Obama proposes to eliminate Federal School Library funds.

What it’s like to open Salinger’s fan mail.

Oddest book title contest.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America remove Amazon.com links from their site.

10 things you should know before going on the Daily Show.

11 of Salinger’s letters are made public.

The short fiction of John Hughes.

A Brooklyn company is making literary t-shirts.

Kirkus Review is saved.

Secret lives of children’s authors.

The Sweet Valley High girls will finally grow up.

Marcus Books in San Francisco may have to close.

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10th Feb2010

We love YOU Bill Watterson

by Janina

We really do. We can admit it. We aren’t the anti-pop-culture book snobs so many booksellers are. We can identify with the funny section of the paper, instead of flipping straight to the literary magazine inserts!  So, this Valentine week, for Books in Motion, we remember Calvin and Hobbes, and announce our undying love for Bill.

Read the first interview with Bill Watterson in 21 years, 15 years after the end of his strip.

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07th Feb2010

East of the Sun West of the Moon and Other Tales from the North – Kay Rasmus Nielsen

by Janina

Kay Rasmus Nielsen (1886-1957) is quite likely my favorite illustrator after Maurice Sendak. A contemporary of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, he grew up in Demark where he began his illustration carrier with books like In Powder and Crinoline & East of the Sun, West of the Moon.  Throughout his career, he illustrated Arabian Nights, Tales from Hans Christian Andersen and Hansel and Gretel and Other Tales. In 1939 he left for California to work unsuccessfully for American illustration companies like Disney, eventually dying in poverty in 1957.

Download East of the Sun West of the Moon and Other Tales from the North illustrated by Kay Nielsen or pick up a reproduction at Logos for $30.00 from Calla Press.

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04th Feb2010

Werner Herzog Reads Curious George

by Janina

For this week’s books in motion we bring you film director Werner Herzog reading Curious George.  Seen through the eyes of Herzog, Curious George becomes a dark and deeply poetic social commentary; you’ll never read this to your kids in the same way again…

Curious George Board Books Now Available at Logos:
Curious George Are You Curious? $5.95
Curious George and the Rocket $5.95
Curious George Rides $5.95
Curious George and the Fire Fighters (Lap Edition) $11.99
Curious George and the Bunny $5.95
Jorge El Curioso $5.95
Jorge El Curioso y El Conejito $5.95

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