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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Everything You Need to Know About Self-Publishing
Longtime readers of TBTP pages are aware of my sporadic career as a freelance author. During the olden days of the 20th century, I published a number of travel books and nonfiction reference books, but eventually gave up the struggle … Continue reading
Bookstore Tourism
I don’t usually promote expensive coffee table books, but I just found this beauty which is a new New York Times 2025 Holiday Gift Guide selection. Bookstores of the World : The Ultimate Around-the-World Tour for Bibliophiles and Bookshop Lovers would make … Continue reading
It’s less Brave New and more 1984
In October of 1949, shortly after the publication of George Orwell’s, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a letter from Aldous Huxley. Having recently finished reading Orwell’s now iconic book, Huxley had some feedback. What starts out as a letter of praise … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, dystopian fiction, George Orwell
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Must Be Love
Heathrow’s beloved stuffed travelers are back. Doris and Edward Bair, the cuddly teddy bear couple who first charmed audiences in the airport’s 2016 holiday ad, have returned in a new campaign titled Must Be Love. The spot leans into the … Continue reading
When is a bookshop like a Tardis
The small German town of Bruchköbel, just outside Frankfurt, now features a bookshop not much larger than Doctor Who’s Tardis. Rathaus-Buchhandlung is the passion-project of bookseller Sandra Corell. Although the cozy store has just 25 square meters of selling space, … Continue reading
It’s Autumnal
GUILDENSTERN: It’s autumnal. ROSENCRANTZ (examining the ground): No leaves. GUILDENSTERN: Autumnal – nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day… Brown is creeping up on us, take my word … Continue reading
Or so the story goes
A Poem: Stories When the light goes out, and the book is set down by the bedside, it all comes flooding in: the story you are reading; the story of the day; the understanding that it is a story, the … Continue reading
Who is stronger than death
Examination at the Womb-Door by Ted Hughes Who owns those scrawny little feet? Death. Who owns this bristly scorched-looking face? Death. Who owns these still-working lungs? Death. Who owns this utility coat of muscles? Death. Who … Continue reading
Spooky reading
And, oh, my God, my God, pity me! He placed his reeking lips upon my throat! … How long this horrible thing lasted I know not; but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, … Continue reading
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Tagged book illustration, Bram Stoker, Dracula, wood engraving
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Travel Between The Pages 