26th Feb2011

News This Week (February 26th)

by Janina

We hope that Michel Gondry will direct a film adaptation of Ubik.

6 reasons Borders went bankrupt.

See fan-created trailers for The Hunger Games.

Kathryn Stockett is sued by her brother’s maid.

James Franco will play the Wizard of Oz.

See what’s on Michael Showalter’s bookshelf.

T.C. Boyle’s top 4 books.

J.K. Rowling’s life is a made-for-TV movie.

The Great Gatsby as a Nintendo game.

Captain Ahab is found.

Jonathan Lethem is in southern California.

8-bit Lego letterpress.

Tony Morrison turns 80.

15 pieces of advice from Kurt Vonnegut.

Top 10 dirty old men of literature.

See a trailer for the film adaptation of Norwegian Wood.

The first real David Foster Wallace documentary.

Tips on identifying a first edition.

Nick Cave opens World Book Night in London.

Read an interview with New York City’s beloved bookstore, Strand.

 

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18th Feb2011

New Cometbus In Stock! (#54)

by Janina

It’s been a while since Logos has carried Cometbus, but here it is! Just in time for the new edition, Cometbus #54 In China With Greenday. This latest edition compares choices he and his friends made in the 90′s, the way they viewed those choices then, and how they view them now. It is a fascinating conversation between the elegance and virtue of DIY culture and the difficulties of sustaining that lifestyle.

For those of you who have never read Cometbus before, let share this beautiful quote from Wikipedia which sums up my feelings quite well:

Cometbus captured a slice of life in Oakland and Berkeley, California from the late 1980s through the 1990s. This includes squatting, collective living, falling in love and other perils of the punk rock lifestyle. His writing is characterized by stories of loneliness and alienation, tempered with episodes of brightness and perennial hope in the ability of humans to connect to one another.

Now Available at Logos:
Cometbus #54 In China With Greenday
By Aaron Cometbus
$4.00

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12th Feb2011

News This Week (February 12th)

by Janina

A list of book cameos in film.

The New York Public Library tries a social experiment: don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

Want to learn about Egypt?

Fictional books with fictional authors.

What would Alice listen to in wonderland?

The evolution of Alice in Wonderland.

See production photos of On the Road.

Matt Kish is doing a drawing for every page in Moby Dick.

Now you too can write like Grant Morrison!

The 10 best mustaches in literature.

Film adaptations of anti-romantic novels you can watch right now.

Everyone is waiting for Borders to file bankruptcy.

Authors who doodled.

Make your own interactive comic.

The Russian fan fiction novel based on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is translated to English.

Save the publishing industry by reading for 10 minutes a day.

Blair Fuller recalls an evening with J.D. Salinger.

Children’s author, Brian Jacques, dies at 71.

What is Watson?

What the Bible really says about sex.

“Txting” children have better literacy skills than others.

Read a live chat transcript with Michael Lewis.

The 10 best love stories in literature.

What Crispin Hellion Glover is up to.

Belgium looks to Lysistrata for political help.

See Jeff Bridges talk about True Grit.

97 things you didn’t know about William S. Burroughs.

Famous literary fights.

The Paris Review will serialize Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich.

Powell’s lays off 31 employees.

Lisa Simpson get’s a book club.

10 of the best bookends.

The Malcolm Gladwell book generator.

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08th Feb2011

News This Week (February 5th)

by Janina

Eric Carle writes a new book on banned expressionist art.

Poet David Morice publishes a 10,000 page poem.

Jane Lynch will write her memoirs.

Jimmy Fallon lands a 2-book deal.

Patti Smith is very disappointing. She is also writing a detective novel.

Nominations for the Best Translated Book Award are revealed.

Writer Eduardo Labarca urinates on Jorge Luis Borges’ grave as an act of art.

Ursula K. Le Guin writes about Roberto Bolaño’s Monsieur Pain.

Was Herman Melville the last great American enigma?

The anonymous author of the Obama novel, O, is revealed.

Dashiell Hammett’s lost works are found in Texas.

The Turkish government declares used books unsanitary.

Booksellers look for inspiration in a bicycle shop.

What do Katy Perry, Jack Kerouac and Ayn Rand have in common?

The extreme sport of book jacket design?

Emma Watson will star in the film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The MoMA acquires 23 digital typefaces for its permanent collection.

The coolest apps for books.

60 years later, Barnaby Conrad keeps his promise to Sinclair Lewis.

As it turns out, Nabakov’s theory on butterfly evolution is correct.

Idle doodles from famous authors.

Egyptian protesters are protecting their libraries as British authors try to protect theirs.

Download short stories in origami form.

What the kids are reading these days.

How and why to write as explained by some wonderful authors.

Haruki Murakami’s newest novel, 1Q84, will be published in English and ready by October!

Judging books by their covers, UK vs US.

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