Category Archives: Books

Bookstore Tourism: Dubai

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

In what seems to be a disturbing trend around the world, yet another staff-less bookstore has opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Book Hero, which is open 24 hours a day, has off-site management, but has zero booksellers on the … Continue reading →

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April Is The Cruelest Month

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Brian D. Butler
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Bookstore Tourism Boulder

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

This week, Publishers Weekly named Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colorado as the 2018 Bookstore of the Year. Founded in 1973 by David Bolduc, the bookshop has been a pioneer in indie bookstore initiatives, as well as an anchor in … Continue reading →

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Cultivating Readers

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

With an entirely new crop of babies arriving in our family this year, I have been focused again on the importance of starting early reading to children. Research has clearly shown that reading to and with children from birth and throughout childhood … Continue reading →

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Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (Les songes drolatiques de Panatgruel) is a bizarre, Brueghel-esque volume of humorous and grotesque woodcuts published in Paris in 1565. Based on the satirical Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by François Rabelais, the book … Continue reading →

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When The Spring Came

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Brian D. Butler
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Bookstore Tourism Beijing

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Chinese bookstore chain Xinhua has opened the nation’s first employee-less, 24-hour bookstore, in Tongzhou, a district in southeast Beijing, and plans to open another 19 similar stores in the city before the end of the year. The bookshops, which are … Continue reading →

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Through me forbidden voices

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, illustrator Rockwell Kent  

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Un Bouquiniste et Notre Dame

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

The last few times that I’ve been in Paris I’ve been disappointed to find that the traditional bouquinistes or booksellers along the Seine have been slowly replaced by vendors of tourist tat. This photo from 1931 by Jean Pierre Yves Petit (aka … Continue reading →

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Blade Runner 1968

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

The Folio Society, 2017, Illustrations by Chris Skinner and Andrew Archer

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