On books and film adaptations.

The wonderful and terrible habit of buying too many books.

Fashion designer Carlos Campos creates a clothing collection based on Love in the Time of Cholera.

See the collected covers of The Paris Review.

The Tower of Abraham Lincoln.

Watch a Librarian’s parade from 1930.

10 greatest literary kisses.

Jennifer Egan and technology are not buddies.

The final alphabet.

The woman behind Dear Sugar (The Rumpus’ advice columnist) is revealed.

Read an interview with Daniel Handler and Maria Kalman about their new book Why We Broke Up.

Sandman cupcakes inspired by Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel.

Literary pick-up lines.

Anthony Shadid dies at 43.

Cormac McCarthy’s 17th century vocabulary.

The Author’s Guild attacks Amazon’s pricing strategies.

R.L. Stein posts a horror story to Twitter.

See police sketches of literary characters.

See a Hunger Games and Lana Del Rey mash-up.

Penguin joins the list of publishers unwilling to sell e-books to libraries.

Charles Dickens turns 200.

T.S. Eliot loved his day job.

Seven Stories Press wants to turn the literary cannon into graphic novels.

Read an interview with Tom Mueller, expert on olive oil criminology.

An Iranian man is jailed for his book translations.

The journals that published early Modernist writings are now available as PDFs.

A decreasing amount of kids books are being published about nature.

What your bookshelf says about you.

The stories behind publishing mascots.

Top 10 Shakespeare adaptations for the silver screen.

Advice from the new translation of the Kama Sutra.

Read an interview with Michael Chabon.

Joyce’s children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen will be published in England for the first time.

Rachel Maddow wins the John Steinbeck award.

Shit editors and agents say.

Adam Johnson talks about his book The Orphan Master’s Son and Kim Jong Il’s death.

See 15 famous author homes.

“HBO is filming The Corrections at my parent’s house” and other musings on TV and literature.

Botanists kick Latin to the curb.

“…only tyrants are interested in what their subjects read. ” or, why Vladimir Putin’s national reading list is terrifying.

Read a quick history of Howard Pyle.

On the importance of poet’s as friends and editors.

“What if the moon landing had failed” and other unused presidential speeches.

The 5 books that inspire the most tattoos.

Moby Dick takes bathroom reading to a new level.

The most literate cities in America.

If PG Wodhouse had written American Psycho.

The American Regional Dictionary will finally be released.

The kids at Oxford are playing Quidditch.

Salman Rushdie attacks Indian politicians for failing to protect free speech.

Cormac McCarthy joins twitter.

Letters from children to Roald Dahl, Harper Lee, and others.

See Anais Nin and Henry Miller talk about dreams.

How much do you know about Russian Literature?

See a long lost animated version of The Hobbit.

Thomas Jefferson’s edited bible is being reissued.

The imagined stories behind a Victorian skull collection in the Mütter Museum.

A cleric calls for Salman Rushdie to be barred from India.

The works of James Joyce became public domain at the end of 2011.

Jonathan Mirsky on being censored in China.

Chile launches an investigation to see if Neruda was murdered by the Pinochet regime.

See the original illustrations from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.

A library sends international debt collectors after an 8-year-old.

See Johnny Depp read letters from Hunter S. Thompson.

Read an interview with Roberto Bolaño’s first American publisher.

How to write: Step Three, Pudding Cup.

Michael Jackson’s songs inspired by Robert Burns may be released. See if you can turn his lyrics into Burnsesque poetry.

Modern novelists under attack in 1929.

The world’s largest Qur’an is unveiled in Afghanistan.

Apple unveils a free ebook publishing ap.

See the manuscript pages from Great Expectations.

For more than 30 years a mysterious stranger has left 3 red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave. Nevermore?

Is Rupert Murdoch actually Lex Luthor?

J.D. Salinger loved Burger King, and other odd facts.

The 10 most difficult words to translate.

Etta James dies at 73.

Literature as nail art.

Me touching the 1st Edition 1st State Adeventures of Tom Sawyer

Almost a year ago one of our book buyers was going through a box of books, a typical box, with old books that had been discarded years and years ago and stored in Charlotte Williams’ attic. They were nothing spectacular, maybe not books we see everyday, but books that are valued more for their age than content, until suddenly he found a very beautiful, very old, children’s edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It’s always a little exciting when we find old illustrated classics, though they rarely price for more than $20 or $30, they are special for their age, quality, and style. But this one, it turns out, was a 1st American edition, 1st state, making it the most expensive book in Logos’ history.  In November we sold this book with Ms. Williams at auction for $18k at Christie’s. Check out the Sentinel article published last Sunday!

See Samuel Beckett’s doodles.

The Picture of Dorian Greypoupon #bookproductplacement.

James Franco sells his novel to Amazon.

The world’s most expensive book (John James Audubon’s Birds of North America) goes up for auction.

A wine company begins publishing short stories on their bottles.

See The Joy Of Books, an stop-animation of a bookstore at night.

Finnegan’s List, a list of writers they wish were more widely translated is published.

Raymond Chandler spurns Alfred Hitchcock.

The history of the King James Bible.

Superstitious recipes.

The Nobel committee did not like Tolkien’s prose.

Check out a blog devoted entirely to old science books.

Julian Barnes and Jennifer Eagan

Colm Tóibín and Téa Obreht

Margaret Drabble and Katherine Mansfield

Philip Pullman reads Anton Chekhov

Helen Simpson reads Angela Carter

See Shirley Hughes illustrate and talk about Alfie.

On the secret history of secondhand books.

A touching tribute to children’s books author Arnold Lobel.

CasaPound faces a lawsuit for naming their organization after Ezra Pound who was known for his fascist sympathies and antisemitism.

Emily Gravette teaches you how to draw dragons.

Jeff Kinney takes Diary of a Zombie Kid to court for copyright infringement.

Get a free copy of The Yellow Submarine book for your iPhone or iPad.

See the new trailer for The Hobbit.

The Bhagavad Gita is on trial in Russia.

Christopher Hitchens dies at age 62.

43 journalists were killed “in direct relation to their work” this year.

An unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript fetches $1.1 million at auction at Sotheby’s.

Because of how well I love Tove Jansson’s artwork, I was nervous to read The Summer Book at first. I was afraid I wouldn’t like it and that I’d wind up feeling a little disappointed. At last I did read it, all at once in an afternoon while I was visiting my nieces. In her writing, as in her illustration, nothing is superfluous. Each sentence is clear and gemlike. A serene, brilliant book which rejuvenates the delight of curiosity and discovery.

Logos has the pleasure of being chosen to represent a new small-press edition from Sam Amico’s Middlearth Editions, “Two Answers: Told in Tribute to Lew Welch on the 40th Anniversary of his Occultation”.

This from the publisher:

“Printing began on the 40th anniversary of Lew’s disappearance, May 23. Soon afterward some type went missing; energies shifted–Hybernation or Exile…perhaps just too much silence; proofs receded; four months into Autumn. Here Lew returns to haunt this story and legacy with the unseen hand, the eye in the Sky & Black Wells Press. Unlimited thanks to Kush at Cloud House & SF Poetry Museum, who came up with the ritual concept.”

This 8 page, handsewn edition, limited to 86 copies, is signed by Upton, Amico (publisher), Sonnabend (photographer).  This slim volume contains two poems by Charles Upton, a “Transmission Ritual Concept” by Kush, a print by Kush exclusive to this signed edition, and a photo by Casey Sonnabend. According to Sam Amico, the publisher, this book came together synchronistically as a convergence of Upton’s poems, Kush’s rambling through Lew Welch sites on the anniversary of his death, correspondence among them, and then Amico’s finding of an over-exposed photo by Sonnabend that was taken and rejected for an earlier book of Welch’s published letters. It is designed as a tribute to Welch and a recognition to the influence of Welch on these four touched lives.

More from the publisher:

The week  was begun with the synchronistic perceptions of Kush, Charles Upton and myself on the actual day (May 23) in 2011–Kush went around the San Francisco Bay sites which Lew was known to frequent, reading for and being with Lew’s spirit…Charles had previously, by then, written the 2 poems of his. Kush and I spoke several times by phone to typographically “align” our perceived influence of Lew on us. This brought us back into a greater alignment with the value system that influenced us so profoundly in our youth. The whole of the “beat” movement seemed to be summoned into a present consciousness.

Casey Sonnabend’s photo of Lew surfaced in Lew’s book of Letters… Tucked into my copy was the “overexposure” that Casey had given to me some years before. The quality of the print impressed me as being a good fit for our collaboration. I have tried to remain faithful to the overexposure in reproducing it here through modern means of digital transference. Credit goes to Casey for his generosity to allow this reprint. As for Charles and Kush, the poems themselves speak volumes as to our reverence, and I hope that the printing will speak for me…a collaboration in the best sense of the word.

A very limited number of copies are available through Logos. If you would like to buy one, we have available both the signed edition for $125, and the unsigned edition (which also lacks the print by Kush described above) for $50. Please email for further details.