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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Around the World in 80 Postcards
Lehel Kovacs is a Budapest-based artist and illustrator who dreamed of traveling around the world. When those travel plans did not pan out, he decided to take a virtual world tour using Google Street View. That inspired the creation of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Around the World in 80 Days, Google Street View, Jules Verne, Kickstarter, Postcards
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At The Bookbinders
The folks from the London Review Bookshop paid a visit to London’s Shepherds Bookbinders to observe the creation of a limited special edition of Tom McCarthy’s novel Satin Island.
Posted in Books, Europe, Tech, Writing
Tagged Bookbinding, Printing, Publishing, Satin Island, Tom McCarthy
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Ban This Book
Posted in Animation, Books, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books Week, censorship, USA
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Comics In Transit
The Vancouver-based non-profit comics collective Cloudscape Comics is behind a very clever project called “Comics In Transit”. They’ve commission single-page poster sized comics from twenty Canadian comic artists to be displayed on bus shelters around Vancouver, BC. Each work documents … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Canada, Public Transport, Tourism
Tagged Copenhagen, Toronto, Vancouver
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Hemingway the Hoarder
Ernest Hemingway was one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, but he was also a big time hoarder. A new exhibition, “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars”, at New York City’s grand Morgan Library and Museum is packed with examples of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Hotels, Libraries, Museums, Photography, Tourism, USA
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Morgan Library & Museum, NYC, Paris, World War I, World War II
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Literary Cartography
The Map of Literature is featured in a terrific new book just released by Penguin. Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping Out the Modern World is the work of a precocious 17-year-old cartographic genius from Slovakia named Martin Vargic. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Maps, Tech, Writing
Tagged Cartography, Literature, Mapping
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Defend Your Freedom To Read
Held during the last week of September each year, Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and raises awareness about the ongoing threats of censorship in the United States. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community—readers, authors, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, USA, Writing
Tagged ALA, Animal Farm, Banned Books Week, Lord of the Flies, Slaughterhouse Five
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Craft Endures
If you have followed the career of travel show host/celebrity chef/author and raconteur Anthony Bourdain, you won’t be surprised to hear that he has collaborated with the makers of Balvenie single malt whisky to create a series of short films … Continue reading
Come for the pandas, stay for the bookstores
Most travelers to China visit the Sichuan Province capital city of Chengdu for the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve, but bibliophiles will want to make time for the amazing Fangsuo Bookstore. With a dramatic entrance way and cavernous interiors, the bookshop … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Asia, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism
Tagged Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Wolong
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Libraries of the Mind
Shanghai-based artist Jie Ma’s imagined libraries are surreal, literary dreamscapes that intrigue and challenge the viewer. The extraordinary digital images offer fantastic sci-fiesque libraries of the mind.
