Author Archives: Brian D. Butler

La Biblioteca del Mondo

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Umberto Eco: A Library of the World is a wonderful new documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Directed by Davide Ferrario, the documentary will launch in the U.S. beginning … Continue reading →

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the shape of what you lived

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you. In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You … Continue reading →

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Ocean of Books

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

An Ocean of Books is an interactive map of over 100,000 authors and 145,162 books. On this map every island is an author and every city is a book. Searching the Ocean of Books map by author allows the user to … Continue reading →

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How to deal with book banners

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Happy Short Story Month

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

May is Short Story Month so why not celebrate by reading some classic short fiction. Here’s a list of short story collections worth visiting this month, or any time. James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man J. G. Ballard’s The Complete … Continue reading →

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Not a scientific survey

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

“An Italian, speaking English, rating croissants on YouTube, in Paris, while the French people are doing a massive strike. That’s the magic of Europe in one video!” Over the last week or so, I’ve run across the wonderful short video … Continue reading →

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A daily dose of Dracula

Posted on May 2, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Regular readers of Travel Between The Pages may recall a post from this day last year about a very clever project that delivers daily episodes from Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire novel Dracula. If you missed Dracula Daily, or if you just can’t get enough … Continue reading →

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Game of the World

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Created in 1645 by Pierre Du Val, Le Jeu du Monde is one of the oldest known geographic board games. The purpose of the 17th century French board game is to progress from the North Pole to the center of … Continue reading →

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The supply of strange ideas is not endless.

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

“The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace” by Donald Barthelme In the abandoned palazzo, weeds and old blankets filled the rooms. The palazzo was in bad shape. We cleaned the abandoned palazzo for ten years. We scoured the stones. The … Continue reading →

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Very Short Stories

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

I’m hooked on the ultra short sci-fi  stories on Twitter, @smllwrlds is publishing a new tiny illustrated sci-fi story every day of 2023. Try it and you will be hooked too.  

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