Author Archives: Brian D. Butler

Darkness Visible

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

I recently read Nick Harkaway’s exciting novel Titanium Noir. The blurb above is a better recommendation for the book than any review that I could ever post. If you haven’t read Harkaway, it’s not a bad place to start. After reading the … Continue reading →

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It was a bright cold day in April, so sweaters were necessary

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Every knitter and Orwell fan that you know will want this free download: a knitting pattern for a sweater depicting the cover of the iconic Penguin Classics version of George Orwell’s 1984. “The pattern includes extra alphabet charts so that … Continue reading →

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it had been overrun by religious stupefiers, mountebanks, charlatans, obfuscators, and other dedicated misleaders,

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

“When young and full of fellow feeling, Professor Joseph Skizzen had been tormented by the thought that the human race (which he naïvely believed was made up of great composers, a few harmlessly lecherous painters, maybe a mathematician or a … Continue reading →

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Middle Earth Obsession

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Like many Travel Between The Pages readers, I’m a big J.R.R.Tolkien fan. I can date my interest in Middle Earth back to a bit of graffiti that I saw on a wall in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood when … Continue reading →

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Oh, horror upon horror!

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Few writers have the ability to evoke a sense of horror and dread more effectively than Edgar Allan Poe, born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s parents were actors. Their bright but unstable son grew up to be … Continue reading →

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Clearing out the memes

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

 

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The Disappointed Tourist

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

The Disappointed Tourist is a brilliant, on-going project in which artist Ellen Harvey is making paintings of places suggested by members of the public in response to the question: “Is there some place that you would like to visit or … Continue reading →

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Coffee makes the world go round

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

 

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From-To

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

The new website From-To promises to ‘make new places familiar’. It does this by comparing districts in the city you wish to travel to with a city you know well. For example if you are traveling to New York from … Continue reading →

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“The universe (which others call the library)”

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Brian D. Butler

Books, by Erica Jong  

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