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News This Week (May 15th)

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

On the Road attempts the silver screen.

How DO you pronounce Moleskine?

Robert Pinsky and Bruce Springsteen talk about their New Jersey.

Romantic trivia.

Read an interview with Sh*t My Dad Says.

The dictionary definition of ‘siphon’ has been wrong for nearly a century.

Censorship at Tehran’s book fair.

Is merchandising killing Tintin?

Chuck Klosterman’s next… deck of cards?

Will Theory be the death of literature?

A New Jersey school’s decision to ban a gay anthology is being challenged.

David Mitchell talks about his life and inspirations.

The house where Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s is on sale.

Tea Party Bookshop in Oregon changes it’s name.

Irish author Bree O’mara dies in a plane crash.

Sarah Palin is writing another book.

The best children’s books ever.

You still can’t personalize an e-book.

Ray Bradbury as modern mythologist.

Read a Bret Easton Ellis interview.

Tyra Banks will write a teen book series.

Write a letter to your favorite fictional character.

Another Philip K. Dick adaptation for the silver screen.

NYC cuts funding for adult literacy program.

Nancy Drew’s sexy secrets.

Old cigarette machines are selling book.

Fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta dies at 82.

Make your own Wikipedia book.

50 really cool bookstore blogs.

4 artists attempt to illustrate every page of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

Neuromancer: impossible to film?

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in brief.

There is nothing wrong with teen fiction.

Yann Martel send’s Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper 1 book every two weeks.

Listen to Charles Wright read.

Listen to Andrew O’Hagan and Sasha Weiss talk about Samuel Johnson.

Watch a slide show of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs.

How Chinese censorship affects western writers.

On comic book film adaptations.

News This Week (May 8TH)

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

Scottish historian James McMillan dies at 61.

Teacher and literary critic David Musselwhite dies at 69.

Spider-man stops a bookstore thief.

Novel performance uses text messaging.

Hunter S. Thompson heads to the silver screen again.

Neil Gaiman creates One Book One Twitter.

Bill Murray reads to construction workers.

Terry Pratchett has issues with the storylines of Doctor Who.

The history of talking animals in literature.

17 Pulitzer Prize winners have signed a petition in defense of South Park’s Muhammad episode.

Scenes from the post-print apocalypse.

The collected poems and art of the London Underground.

The Great Northwest Bookstore goes down in flames.

Google will sell e-books.

Comic-strip writer and artist Peter O’Donnell dies at 90.

One Byron fan takes the plunge.

Vasily Grossman is still under appreciated in Russia.

Russian poet Elena Shvarts dies at 61.

Why are these the 10 most controversial books in America?

Grant Morrison turns Bruce Wayne into a time traveler.

The best true crime writers.

Yann Martel is personally hurt by bad reviews.

One fan tracks down Details’ 1996 profile on David Foster Wallace.

The top 10 kindle books are free.

Can you judge a book by it’s cover?

The new world of children’s e-books.

Barnes and Noble is being sued.

Tom Waits does Shakespeare.

Malcolm Gladwell: the best of pop-culture.

David Mitchell talks about writing a libretto.

Twilight characters are taking over new baby names.