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News This Week (October 31st)

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

Angels are the new vampires.

Philip Roth sees the Novel as the next cult classic.

A dispute over where to house Kafka’s manuscript for The Trial continues.

The Russian Booker short list was announced.

Author Stuart Kaminsky dies at age 75.

The F.B.I. thinks VS Naipaul is dead.

Jonathan Safran Foer stirs things up with dog eating suggestions.

Read an interview with John Updike from 1978, Croatia.

Ang Lee finished the first draft of his film adaptation for Life of Pi.

The Kennedy Library will acquire copies of thousands of Hemingway’s papers from Cuba.

David Eggers’ Zeitoun will become an animated film.

Fantasy book jacket artist Don Ivan Punchatz dies at age 73.

News This Week (October 24th)

There is a lot of news this week…

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

Bands are demanding to know if their music was used as instruments of torture at GITMO.

Animal Collective fights to protect seals.

Jack Kerouac never wanted to be a cultural icon.

Writers and educators defend fear in children’s stories (especially Where the Wild Things Are) in England.

Watch the leaked, unfinished Kanye West and Spike Jones film We Were Once A Fairy Tale.

Read an interview with Jonathan Lethem.

Kanye West gets community service for an airport camera attack.

Read an exert from David Eggers The Wild Things.

Read a Jonathan Lethem short story.

See Van Gogh’s letter sketches and read the transcriptions.

See images from Robert Crumbs Book of Genisis.

Neil Gaiman and Melvin Burgess explore twitter as storytelling medium.

Nabakov’s novel Laura will be released soon.

Mexico admits to spying on Gabriel García Márquez who they suspected as a Cuban agent.

Spoof biographies of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue are popping up.

The Guardian UK explores Julio Cortazar’s short stories.

See images from Carl Jung’s The Red Book.

Stuart Hample on turning Woody Allen into a comic strip.

On F. Scott Fitzgerald’s preoccupation with money.

Philip Roth takes his own author tour.

See some very old dust jackets.

On T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland.

A new Shel Silverstein children’s book and album will be released.

See sexy science fiction covers.

Get a free copy of Gregory Maguire’s new novel.

The American Bookseller’s Association challenges the price wars between Amazon, Target, Walmart, and others.

Young Adult novelist Norma Fox Mazer dies at 78.

José Saramago calls the Bible a handbook for bad morals.

News This Week (October 17th)

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

Mystery writer Stewart M. Kaminsky dies at 75.

The American Booksellers Association is fighting the Patriot Act to protect reader privacy.

The Guardian celebrates fairy tales.

Brett Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sandt are writing a film.

Read about Nelson Mandela’s archive.

Ahhh! Woooh! What’s happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I?

McSweeney’s will do a broadside tribute.

Chinua Achebe thinks Joseph Conrad’s  Heart of Darkness is a sexy bad influence.

Carl Sagan as super hipster?

This is your brain on reading.

Will Self talks about Roald Dahl.

Comics are making a stir in literary circles.

John Freeman is named editor of Granta.

This is why John Irving has a gun.

Happy Birthday Harvey Peckar!]

Happy Birthday Moby Dick!

News This Week (October 10th)

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

Read a John Ashbury poem.

The Tin Drum is the 20th Century’s cultural icon.

The first new Winnie-the-Pooh since 1928.

Amazon launches the Kindle worldwide.

T. S. Eliot is named as the nation’s favorite poet in the UK.

Archie’s confusing romance is far from over.

Editor Kate Duffy dies at 56.

Yiddish author Josef Burg dies at 97.

Herta Müller wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

Harvard buys John Updike’s archives.

Read an excerpt from Vonnegut’s Look at the Birdie.

The British Library buys the Eva Figes archives for £20,000.

Frankfurt Book Fair opens under censorship accusations.

Inherent Vice = Grand Theft Auto?

The New York Times features a crossword puzzle of author names.

Criminal charges for advice in a self help book?

People are starting to get excited about Eoin Colfer’s revival of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

The largest collection of rare Chinese books will be digitalized.

Maurice Sendak says “Go to hell”.

News This Week (October 3rd)

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

Logos Books & Records celebrates it’s 40th anniversary next week.

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, William Safire, dies at 79.

JK Rowling joins twitter. For real.

David Mamet’s adaptation of the Diary of Anne Frank is rejected by Disney for being too dark (we can’t say we didn’t see that one coming).

The Lost Symbol has a new contender for sales on ABE books.

The New York Times busts Nabakov for using note cards in an interview.

Moby Dick will become a TV series.

The Guardian UK considers the history of The Hitchkiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

And Tango Makes Three Rises to the top is on the rise from its publicity on the Banned Books List.

Elmore Leonard will be honored with the lifetime achievement award.

JK Rowling is shunned, no freedom for witchcraft?

Terry Pratchett continues to criticize anti-assisted suicide guidelines.

The 2,560′th birthday of Confucius is celebrated.

Rebecca Eckler pays Margaret Atwood to maybe kill her?

Haruki Murakami is split in two.

News This Week (September 19)

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

Poet and novelist Jim Carroll dies at 60.

Read a Sam Shepard short story.

If books go digital, how will the highbrow accessorize?

Jonathan Lethem writes on J G Ballard.

Philadelphia is preparing to close all their public libraries due to a budget lock.

People are getting excited about the release of Carl Jung’s Red Book.

Universal Studios is planning a Harry Potter theme park.

Google signs a deal to print 2 million books on espresso machines (not the coffee kind).

Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol sets the record in adult fiction sales.

The original photo gallery of The Old Man and the Sea, intended to be published with the original version of the story in LIFE, is seen for the first time.

Osama Bin Laden’s recommended reading list.

Nick Cave continues to make the interview rounds for The Death of Bunny Monro.

Oprah chooses Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them for her next book club.

Pavement reunites.

News This Week (September 5th)

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

Disney buys Marvel in a $4 billion deal giving Disney the worlds largest media company.

An autographed book from Truman Capote to Harry Potter, dated 1978, is selling for $1000.

See a map of book bans and challenges from 2007-2009.

Read a John Ashbury Poem.

Read an Orhan Pamuk short story.

The British Library hosts a T.S. Eliot retrospective in honor of Faber & Faber’s 80th anniversary.

15 poems by American poets will be translated into Arabic.

Poet Dic Jones dies at age 75.

Writer and journalist Keith Waterhouse dies at age 80.

The Guardian UK gives away free comics.

Nick Cave’s novel The Death of Bunny Monroe is released as a multimedia experience for the iPhone.

John Lennon’s abecedarium.

Another look at Paul Bowles.

The Stooges reunite.

Beck begins his second Record Club recordings, The Songs of Leonard Cohen, with an all-star line up.

News This Week (August 29)

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

The Obamas are reading.

Julia Child is more popular than ever.

Sebastian Faulks apologizes for calling the Qur’an the rantings of a schizophrenic.

Lunch at William S. Burroughs’ house.

Listen to Karen O. performing All is Love from the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack.

Ray Bradbury celebrates his 89th birthday.

Founder of the test prep company Kaplan Inc., Stanley Kaplan, dies at 90.

Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland will be adapted for the silver screen.

Lemony Snickett is writing dreadful new books.

Martin Amis turns 60.

Author and former Hollywood producer Dominick Dunne dies at 83.

Eric Carle gets a giant crayon in Very Hungry Caterpillar Green.

A literary guide to Ikea.

Authors donate short stories for a human rights anthology.

There is a lot of to-do about Anne Fine’s comments about realism in children’s literature: 1 2 3 4 5

After 26 years, we say goodbye to Reading Rainbow.

Biographer and memoirist James Lord dies at 86.