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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Visit London (then & now)
These little BBC Motion Gallery videos offer a glimpse of London 50+ years ago and now.
House of Books…Book of Maps
This simple, but engaging video is the first in the developing series of the Rare Book Feast, a series dedicated to the timeless nature of the printed book. I’ve sold a number of copies of this wonderful atlas over the years, … Continue reading
Recycling Books: not the Same Old Story
More than 200 cafés and coffeshops around Israel have joined a brilliant project called “Same Old Story”, which recycles abandoned and donated books . Dolev Gotlib founded the project to pass books along in an ecologically friendly way, to keep … Continue reading
Weird Things People Say In Bookshops
As a bookdealer I’ve had my fair share of bizarre and wacky questions or comments from book browsers and buyer. Writer and part-time bookseller Jen Campbell has taken to compiling some of the odder comments on her book blog, This … Continue reading
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Flying Car : Finally Street Legal
Some of us have been waiting decades for our promised flying cars ( and jet packs) and now they’ve finally arrived. It’s been a bumpy road for the Terrafugia company in its development of a “roadable aircraft” over the past … Continue reading
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Don’t Call Us…
Shaun Usher, who curates the brilliant Letters of Note blog, which gathers all sorts of fascinating correspondence, postcards, memos,faxes and telegrams, has published a wonderfully amusing letter from the late, great John D. MacDonald. The novelist referenced his early history … Continue reading
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A World I Never Made
Brooklyn artist Rachel Kwak created this clever mash-up of poetry, animation (cut-outs, stop motion, replacement) and music based on A E Houseman’s poem, A World I Never Made.
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Cy Twombly RIP
Just back from MOMA to catch the final days of the fabulous German Expressionist show and was surprised to hear about the passing of American Abstract giant Cy Twombly.
