Monthly Archives: March 2020

Finding refuge in books

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

ECHO (Education.Community.Hope.Opportunity) is an organisation dedicated to fostering community and education initiatives in Greek refugee camps. The ECHO Refugee Library is their flagship project. They hope to transform the sites in which they work from places of stagnancy and waiting, … Continue reading →

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We Are The People

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Iggy Pop’s video “We Are the People” is based on a poem written in 1970 by the late, great Lou Reed. Of the poem, Pop told the BBC last year, “My God, this is the country today as I understand … Continue reading →

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Ugliest Place I’ve Ever Seen

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

When designer Amber Share found that there were one-star reviews for all 62 of the U.S. National Parks she decided to illustrate and hand letter travel posters for them “as a way to put a positive, fun spin on such … Continue reading →

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Why Real Books Are Great

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

h/t to Strand Books NYC  

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Clean the World

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Since 2009 the non-profit organization  Clean the World has been working with hotels to recycle used soap and other toiletry products left behind by their customers into new sanitized soap that is then distributed to people without easy access to … Continue reading →

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Book Face

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

I never seem to tire of the many iterations of the “bookface” project. You probably have  seen versions produced by bored bookshop staff across Europe. Or, perhaps you have stumbles upon  #BookfaceFriday, or simply #Bookface, a meme in which you replace … Continue reading →

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Or will we all have to move to Canada ?

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

“Banal Story” by Ernest Hemingway So he ate an orange, slowly spitting out the seeds. Outside, the snow was turning to rain. Inside, the electric stove seemed to give no heat and rising from his writing-table, he sat down upon … Continue reading →

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Everything has been done

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Mads Lynnerup Everything Has Been Done (2019) ‘In this video a book lights on fire, as it gets opened. The book was published by Colpa Press in San Francisco and is in a limited edition of 50 in which 10 out of … Continue reading →

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World Book Day Through History

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Bookstore Tourism: Istanbul

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

The recently opened Kitap Koala bookstore in Istanbul’s Şişli district offers 30,000 books to its customers with the commitment to give all of its profits to animal shelters and cover the medical needs of stray animals all over Turkey. The … Continue reading →

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