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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
“Dissent is NOT Un-American!”
Twenty-five years ago San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Books initiated a bold project using a series of banners hung along the front of the bookstore. That 5-panel banner installation was the first in a series followed by a period during … Continue reading
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Tagged Bookstore Tourism, City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco
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So you’re going to New York City
Book lovers and bibliophiles who are heading to New York City this year will have an embarrassment of choices when it comes to special exhibitions at some of the city’s premier institutions. The Morgan Library & Museum‘s Come Together: 3,000 Years … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Grolier Club, Morgan Library & Museum, New York City, New York Historical
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Bookstore Tourism : Your Suggestions
Here at TBTP Global HQ we often get referrals to bookshops from readers who are regular customers and from travelers who are impressed with their discoveries. And, of course, there are the random gems that show up serendipitously. So, the … Continue reading
Not making any suggestions, but just in case…
During World War II, the U.S. government urged citizens to become everyday saboteurs when faced with Fascist regimes. In 2008, the US Central Intelligence Agency made public the handbook written for grassroots sabotage. Titled the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, the … Continue reading
Winter in America
And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Looking for the rain Just like the cities staggered on the coastline Living in a nation that just … Continue reading
It’s That Day (again)
In keeping with tradition we at Travel Between The Pages Global HQ stop to acknowledge Public Domain Day in the good old U.S. of A.. As the kids say, there’s a shit ton of free culture coming our way. “On … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Marx Brothers, Public Domain, William Faulkner
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And to make an end is to make a beginning
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T. S. Eliot
Performative reading and other leftover accretions
If all human activity can be measured on a spectrum of authenticity and performativity, what metrics can we use to weed out the genuine from the fabricated? Will we just know? And why do we care? If our culture of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Coffee, pirates, R.Crumb, Reading, Salman Rushdie
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“Sir, that is no way to treat a book!”
British writer and photographer Ben Schott published an essay in the New York Times Book review guaranteed to elicit a cringey response in even the most casual bibliophile. Confessions of a Book Abuser I have to admit I was flattered … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Bibliophiles, Books, New York Times Book Review
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Definitely not, but actually maybe
It has been suggested to me that the frequency of my posts about Japan is somehow indicative of a recently identified syndrome called 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗣𝗝𝗗). To be honest, I’ve had a history of similar responses over the years to … Continue reading
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