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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Data Poetry
Traditional rooftops slope like the backs of resting camels. Forests play fortresses; secrets held in whistling pine needles. Serene valleys echo a painter’s lost blues and greens. Mountains order the sky, no less, wearing casts of gray ruggedness. Although I am a frequent critic of … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Photography, Tech, Writing
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Poetry
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Every Rejection Stings
In October 1895, a surprising announcement appeared in The Lark, a popular literary magazine then based in San Francisco. It called for submissions for the first-ever edition of Le Petit Journal des Refusées (The Little Journal of Rejects), which advertised … Continue reading
Life is stranger than fiction
Forgive the pun, but in this case life is truly stranger than the fictional book above. A fascinating handwritten manuscript of the French novel L’Étranger translated as The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus has sold for €500,000 ($544,000) at auction in Paris. There is little … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Writing
Tagged Albert Camus, France, novels, The Stranger
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It’s always nineteen eighty-four somewhere
George Orwell’s seminal novel turns seventy-five this week. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell posed a frightening question: could people be conditioned to actually believe (rather than just pretend to believe) the lies they are told ? Here we are 75 years later … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, Writing
Tagged 1984, Airstrip-one, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Stumbling Through Saturday Around the Interwebs
I am not embarrassed at all to admit that I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about things in the Lord of the Rings universe such as : who is in charge of trash collection; and what are … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Public Transport, Tourism, Writing
Tagged Frida Kahlo, Hobbits, Netherlands, Pale Fire, Paris, Vladimir Nabokov
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A 1000 Suns
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages will be well aware of my proclivity for all things Sci-Fi. My interests in the genre are wide-ranging and include everything from classic space operas to Black Mirroresque streamers. So, I was chuffed … Continue reading
You CAN get there from here
Usually you see a railway map from a local or regional perspective because it’s meant to show how you get from point A to point B. As an experiment, Zhaoxu Sui mapped major railways worldwide. It’s not comprehensive but still … Continue reading
Wise Thoughts For Everyday
Like many folks who were introduced to the writings of Leo Tolstoy through his novel War and Peace, I was, and remain, ambivalent about the Russian author. I found War and Peace a bit of a slog. However, I found Anna Karenina and The Death of … Continue reading
Have a summer reading adventure
To celebrate 75 years of the National Book Awards, the National Book Foundation has launched the Summer Reading Adventure for adults 18 and older “to lean into the nostalgic, prize-filled fun of summer reading.” Reading activities include visiting a local bookstore … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, ebooks, Libraries, USA
Tagged Reading, summer reads
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Collecting Memories
I’m hoping to get to see the manuscript treasures including Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the Gettysburg Address, a map from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and lyrics from The Sound of Music are among more than 120 items in the new Library … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, History, Libraries, Maps, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Lewis and Clark, Library of Congress, Washington D.C
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