Monthly Archives: September 2010

Blood Meridian at 25

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

This week, Random House is commemorating the 25th anniversary of Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked, horror-story of a Western, Blood Meridian, by releasing a special hardcover Modern Library edition of the novel. McCarthy fans will also want to check-out an amazing ongoing … Continue reading →

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Great First Lines From Banned Books

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know where I was born… J.D.Salinger Catcher in the Rye It was a pleasure to burn. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Someone must have slandered Josef … Continue reading →

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Anne Frank, A Graphic Biography

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to Nina Dijkstra for this timely post during Banned Books Week: Following the publication of Anne Frank – the graphic biography in the Netherlands at the beginning of July, publications in other countries will follow this autumn. The … Continue reading →

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Campaign For Real Books

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to contributor Evan Smythe for this post: Over the past year, the media has reported  over-the-top claims for e-book readers sales and the  escalating sales of e-books. Clearly, e-books have a place in the book reading world but … Continue reading →

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Museum of Innocence

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Turkey’s most celebrated living novelist, Orhan Pamuk, is turning his fictional Museum of Innocence into a real tourist attraction in Istambul. The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature is transforming an old building in central istambul into a … Continue reading →

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Covering Lolita

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to author and jounalist Dieter Zimmer for this post: Vladimir Nabokov’s modern classic, Lolita, has been banned many time since its first publication in the U.S. . Author Dieter Zimmer has put together an impressive collection of 150 book covers … Continue reading →

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BANNED ! … Books Week

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

September 25−October 2, 2010 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information … Continue reading →

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What’s So Scary About These Books ?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Brian D. Butler
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From Here to There

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing website project to archive user submitted hand-drawn maps and other interesting diagrams. The association was created by Philadelphia based artist Kris Harzinski who has collected his favorite maps from the collection to … Continue reading →

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OK, One More Dutch Library & That’s It

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Brian D. Butler
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