Zero History – William Gibson
William Gibson’s Zero History, the third book in a loose trilogy about Hollis Henry comes out next month in paperback. Pick up your copy for $16.00 at Logos Books & Records.
27th Jul2011
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23rd Jul2011
News This Week (July 30th)
See the new trailer for Hugo, Scorsese’s film based on the Brian Seltnick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
The Google Books Settlement has been given a ultimatum.
See Christopher Walken read The Three Little Pigs.
What can science fiction tell us about god?
Steinbeck was obsessed with Somerset.
See a picture of Kerouac, Burroughs and Orlovsky at the beach.
Read the first paragraph of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84.
Read a story from Miranda July.
Borders is closing the rest of it’s stores.
There are more typos in published books.
See the Hunger Games animated film poster.
Ben Stiller will remake and star in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Winnie the Pooh turns 90 soon.
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snickett) suggests Summer reading.
Read an excerpt from Julian Barnes’ new novel.
Clockwork Orange, the musical.
Grant Morrison’s favorite super hero moments.
Sales of To Kill a Mockingbird soar after the Beckham’s name their daughter Harper Lee.
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23rd Jul2011
Bookstore: Cleburne, Texas
My friend (and photographer) William comments:
“It’s kind of comforting to know that you can have a modest little business and NOT have to have a professional facade to the establishment…”
©Wm Wms 2011
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16th Jul2011
News This Week (July 16th)
Google looks to make it’s own eReader.
Charlene Harris is ending the Sookie Stackhouse series.
Read a poem from John Burnside.
A long lost book of tributes to Lord Byron is found.
An unfinished Jane Austen manuscript went up for auction this week, and sold for $1.6 million.
J.K. Rowling cannot be bought.
See short films of Salman Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life.
See Shakespeare’s contribution to English in a 10 minute sketch.
Right now is the worst time to pitch your book idea.
Read a David Sedaris essay on China.
David Bowie is the No. 1 target of the publishing industry.
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09th Jul2011
News This Week (July 9th)
Learn how to poetry bomb a thrift store.
Amazon shipped 180 copies of George R. R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons before it’s release date.
How the Kindle destroyed the best pick-up line.
Flannery O’Connor was also a cartoonist.
Some of the Vatican’s secret archives will be exhibited.
Some advance readers are very expensive.
Read a poem from John Rybicki.
Letters indicate that J.D. Salinger has an unpublished book.
Cornelia Funke’s top 10 fairytales.
Beck is starting his own independent press.
The Royal Shakespeare Company cuts a scene to appease angry New Yorkers.
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03rd Jul2011
Jory and Avery are Back!
Jory John and Avery Monson are back at Logos this Friday from 11-5 signing their new book I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York, as well as their earlier books All My Friends are Dead and The Pirate’s Log. If you missed them last year, DON’T miss them this year!!
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03rd Jul2011
Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
This week The Three Musketeers opens at Shakespeare Santa Cruz! To celebrate we are providing a wealth of resources this week for our Public Domain Hour, including an original film, the full two-part text of the novel, and the text of play adaptation from Selwyn House School.
Three Musketeers Play Adaptation by Selwyn House School (download)
Three Musketeers Volume 1 (download)
Three Musketeers Volume 2 (download)
Three Musketeers 1921 Film staring Douglas Fairbanks, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, and Léon Bary (download) or watch it below:
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02nd Jul2011
News This Week (June 25th)
Why Alice Walker is sailing to Gaza.
Salman Rushdie’s 7 favorite places.
The New York Times sells a candle that smells like a newspaper.
30 best author to author snubs.
Michael Chabon has a project for HBO, and Disney in the works.
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas will be filmed in Berlin.
The mystery of J.K. Rowlings new website Pottermore is revealed.
Read Sarah Palin’s emails as intended: as poetry.
50 Cent is writing a young adult book on bullying.
Shaun Tan’s interview in pictures.
Bookstores are starting to charge for author events.
Giant book covers as protest signs against library cuts.
See Neil Gaiman sing about Joan of Arc.
A Seattle bookseller refuses to sell an Amazon imprint.
Levar Burton plans a Reading Rainbow flashmob.
Keanu Reeves releases a very expensive poetry book.
Jeff Bridges is looking to adapat Lois Lowry’s The Giver for the silver screen.
Amazon will begin paying sales tax in California.
Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets is in development for a Showtime series.
Someone is making paper sculptures of Ian Rankin’s mysteries.
The final hours of Frederico García Lorca.
See teachers using hip-hop to teach poetry.
Read an interview with Salman Rushdie.
Jarvis Cocker will publish a book of Pulp lyrics.
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