Category Archives: Books

Why Orwell’s 1984 Still Matters

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

Each year around this time someone remembers that George Orwell’s iconic novel Nineteen Eighty- Four was first released in June of 1949. I think that bringing attention to the book is always a valuable exercise, now more than ever. Ironically, in … Continue reading →

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Sunday Sundries

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

Atlas of endangered alphabets – is an excellent project aiming to save indigenous and minority writing systems. High Life – Just discovered that you don’t even have to leave home to read British Airways’ really rather good in-flight magazine. Worth … Continue reading →

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the lie was the weapon and the plot was empty

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

“Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you. When I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated. I had bad blood, a twisted mind, a precarious upbringing. I was hard as granite, I leered at the … Continue reading →

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The Massacre of Innocents

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS William Jay Smith (1946) Because I believe in the community of little children Because I have suffered such little children to be slain: I have gazed upon the sunlight, dazed, bewildered, As is a child … Continue reading →

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Bibliophile Wolf

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

 

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June Again

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

  by Judy Longley  

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moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are … Continue reading →

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman  Happy Birthday Walt “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem about a man taking the Brooklyn ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a … Continue reading →

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A Very Short Story

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Banned But Unburnable

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

To protest widespread book bans in the U.S., Canadian author Margaret Atwood has collaborated with her publishers on a fireproof edition of her most famous—and often banned—novel, The Handmaid’s Tale.  The unique issue was produced by Rethink, an independent creative agency, and made in … Continue reading →

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