24th Jun2010

The Girl Who Played With Fire – Free Film Passes!!

by Janina

Attention Logos Shoppers! Logos has FIVE free passes to see the The Girl Who Played With Fire!

First FIVE people to come in and ask at the Buyer’s Desk will get a pass for you +1*

Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Series has shocked the literary world with their success bringing in readers and fans from all genres all across the world. Larsson’s books were not translated into English until 2008, 4 years after his death at the age of 50 from a massive heart attack, but his success has paved the way for other Sweedish authors to make their way to English readers.

Get the whole series at Logos!

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
 By Stieg Larsson
$15.95

The Girl Who Played With Fire
By Stieg Larsson
$14.95

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nests
By Stieg Larsson
$27.95

*Passes good for you and a guest after July 16th (opening weekend) Mon-Thursday. Passes must be validated by Logos Employees.

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19th Jun2010

News This Week (June 19th)

by Janina

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

A visual application of Ulysses is censored by Apple, then rethought.

Eoin Colfer is writing adult fiction.

What Americans used to read.

What to do when your co-author is accused of murder for hire?

Borders is struggling.

Ghostwriting is no longer shameful.

What if you only read what you bought as a teenager?

Amazon continues to strong-arm publishers.

Publisher’s Weekly now has an iPhone/iPad app.

David Eagleman’s Sum gets a boost from Stephen Fry.

The new USB typewriter.

The Wizard of OZ will become a community sourced audiobook.

On having a rare book addiction.

Science fiction publisher Tor is making many of it’s bestselling 2009 books free e-books.

Poet David Chaloner dies at 65.

Alan Moore drops out of the Gorillaz opera collaboration.

Food guide publisher Egon Ronay dies at 94.

Jack Kerouac’s typewriter is up for auction.

A woman is caught pouring mayonnaise in a book drop.

Who was the real Holly Golightly?

A real book thief.

On words.

Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone becomes an accidental success.

An impassioned plea for picture books.

Scott Pilgrim will hit the silver screen and the arcade.

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is being adapted for the silver screen.

Andrei Bely’s Petersberg is called the Russian Ulysses, among others.

The success of Steig Larsson’s series has publishers searching for more.

Google will scan 400,000 copyright-free Australian books.

10 adult books for kids.

A Harry Potter theme park opens in Florida.

Nick Hornby is working on an album with Ben Folds.

Clive Owen will play Ernest Hemingway in a new HBO series.

See a retrospective of Julian Hanshaw’s images.

Neil Young’s album, Greendale, will become a graphic novel.

Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate José Saramago dies at 87, the world remembers:

The Guardian UK (piece 1) (piece 2)

The New York Times (piece 1) (piece 2)

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Read an interview with Grant Morrison.

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16th Jun2010

Happy Bloomsday!

by Janina

Happy Bloomsday everyone! Every year Joyce lovers around the world celebrate the single day that Ulysses takes place on. What are you doing this year to celebrate this special day?

If you don’t have anything planned, start by checking out Ulysses Seen, the graphic adaptation of Ulysses that just won a nudity battle with Apple!

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12th Jun2010

News This Week (June 12th)

by Janina

Lots of news from the last month….

Guillermo Del Toro leaves The Hobbit project.

Film director Sam Mendes will take Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the stage.

Wind in the Willows will become a $30 million production.

Read a Jeffery Eugenides short story.

Read an interview with ZZ Packer.

Read a Jonathan Frazen short story.

Read an interview with Jonathan Safran Foer.

Read a Roddy Doyle short story.

8 most common short story plots.

NYRB on Charles Dickens.

Listen to Lydia Davis short stories.

See Paul Auster read from his new novel.

Novelist Arthur Herzog dies at 83.

Novelist David Markson dies at 82.

Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me goes to the silver screen.

Jonathan Franzen on Christina Stead.

Read an interview with Christopher Hitchens.

The New Yorker picks 20 young authors worth watching.

Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky dies at 77.

On inscriptions in books.

James Fogle, author of Drugstore Cowboy, is arrested.

The future of Stieg Larsson’s estate.

New Yorker cartoonist, Bernard Schoenbaum, dies at 89.

Journalist Joe McGinniss moves in next door to Sarah Palin.

David Eggers takes his 826 project to London.

Christopher Hitchens in pictures.

Watch Quintin Blake at the Hay festival.

Picador launches a prize for unpublished poets.

Barack Obama will write the forward to a Nelson Mandela book.

Watch David Mitchell.

Unpublished Stieg Larsson manuscripts are discovered.

Gary Oldman will star in John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

David Foster Wallace’s student thesis will be published.]

In praise of Miklós Bánffy.

The Royal Shakespeare Company does Le Morte d’Arthur.

Ornithologist and field guide writer Richard ffrench dies at 80.

The best of Puffin books in pictures.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón lists his top 10 modern Gothic novels.

Read an interview with Daniel Clowes.

On the importance of graphic novels.

Barbara Kingsolver wins the Orange prize.

The JG Ballard archive is acquired for the British Library.

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03rd Jun2010

Essays – Wallace Shawn

by Janina

For this week’s Books in Motion we bring you a WNYC interview with Wallace Shawn on his book Essays.  Wallace Shawn is ‘hands down’ one of my favorite writers of all time.  Most well known for his cameo appearances in television and film (inconceivable!), Wallace Shawn is, at heart, a playwright.  His book of essays touches on the work he did with Andre Gregory in My Dinner w

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