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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Party Like It’s Bookstore Day
This coming Saturday, April 27, will mark the fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day in the United States. The day-long party will take place at hundreds of indie booksellers from Alaska to Florida. Bookshops will celebrate the occasion with author events, … Continue reading
Weekend Links To Love
Travel On A Sunbeam with Tillie Walden’s online sci-fi comic. Get your Surrealist Starter Kit right here. Who doesn’t need some more Gorey ? Transit maps should work for residents and tourists alike. Check out this amazing but unofficial re-imagined map for … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Public Transport, Tourism, USA, Writing
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A Secondhand Book Scheme To Emulate
An abandoned warehouse in southeastern Seoul, Korea has been transformed into the city’s first publicly supported secondhand bookstore mall. Although it faced sharp criticism, the project developed by the municipal government and main library, has been a resounding success. In … Continue reading
Just So Stories
Just So Stories for little children Rudyard Kipling London Macmillan and Co Limited First Edition September 1902 – Reprinted October 1902 I was never a big Kipling fan as a child, but I vividly remember this particular book from the … Continue reading
NYC Bookwagons Are Coming Back
Starting this summer, the New York Public Library will be bringing books to residents of the Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan via a new fleet of brand new, strawberry red-colored vans. These new NYPL bookmobiles are designed to help communities … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bronx, New York City, NYPL, Queens, Staten Island
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Hey, It’s National Poetry Month
Just Beyond Yourself David Whyte Just beyond yourself. It’s where you need to be. Half a step into self-forgetting and the rest restored by what you’ll meet. There is a road always beckoning. When you see the two sides of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Emily Dickinson, National Poetry Month, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams
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The Library Project
Not long ago, I posted a story about British -Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s book art project at the Cleveland Library called The American Library Project. Now his companion project called The British Library has found its way into Tate Modern’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Museums
Tagged Book Art, British Library, Cleveland, Tate Modern
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History Repeats Itself
Karl Marx wrote that “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” This reprint from the St.Louis Dispatch September 9, 1923, should be a reminder of the farce playing itself out across the United States and Europe today.
21st Century Libraries
Librarians from the historic California State Library in Sacramento created the cartoon-style infographic below to celebrate National Library week and to explore the many roles that libraries can play in the 21st century. Established in 1850, the California State Library … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged California, National Library Week, Sacramento
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