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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Homer (not Simpson) in Egypt
Researchers discovered the mummy at a funerary complex located south of Cairo, in Al Bahnasa, the modern-day location of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Oxyrhynchus, during an excavation in late 2025. Upon examination, the team revealed a sheet of papyrus inside … Continue reading
someone giving someone comfort
In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where someone had fat-Sharpied a black heart on the yellow pillar you leaned on during a bleak day (brittle and no notes from … Continue reading
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even … Continue reading
Are We Having Fun Yet
Birthday colour fun. A creative person in Japan made a tool that generates a unique color associated with your birth date, along with its name and meaning. (You’ll need Google translate for the meaning) The AI Writing Witchhunt Is Pointless. … Continue reading
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The Last Library
I recently stumbled across an intriguing new exhibition at the St. Petersburg Fine Art Museum in St. Pete Florida. The task of creating thousands of crazy, fake dust jackets and cultural maps must have been Herculean. It’s political, philosophical, and … Continue reading
Would you leave your laptop unattended in a coffee shop here for 10 minutes?
When I was in Japan, I was constantly surprised to see laptops, mobile phones and other electronics, as well as purses and backpacks, left unattended in coffeeshops and cafes. That level of trust in strangers is now nonexistent in the … Continue reading
The Obsolete Man
“You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began … Continue reading
Korea’s First Book Village
The Gochang Bookstore Village, Korea’s first “bookstore village,” was created by six independent bookstores. The rural booktown opened in October 2025, beginning with Lee Yun-ho, a former culture critic who left Seoul in search of a quieter place to open … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 