Category Archives: USA

Everyone Has Secrets

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. There is also a series of PostSecret books published by Harper Collins, and “PostSecret Live” – a multi-media presentation by … Continue reading →

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Is This How We Really See The World ?

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The daring, imaginative Bulgarian artist/graphic designer/illustrator Yanko Tsvetkov has created a terrific website to showcase his hilarious, but biting, Mapping Stereotypes.

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Bye-Bye Banned Books Week (til next year)

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Brian D. Butler
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Why Not Moby-Dick ?

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Inspired by Zak Smith’s Gravity’s Rainbow project and the Blood Meridian project, artist/illustrator/librarian Matt Kish has created the Every Page of Moby-Dick blog, where he posts one drawing per day illustrating each of the 540 pages of the Signet Classic … Continue reading →

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Blood Meridian at 25

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

This week, Random House is commemorating the 25th anniversary of Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked, horror-story of a Western, Blood Meridian, by releasing a special hardcover Modern Library edition of the novel. McCarthy fans will also want to check-out an amazing ongoing … Continue reading →

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Campaign For Real Books

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to contributor Evan Smythe for this post: Over the past year, the media has reported  over-the-top claims for e-book readers sales and the  escalating sales of e-books. Clearly, e-books have a place in the book reading world but … Continue reading →

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Covering Lolita

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to author and jounalist Dieter Zimmer for this post: Vladimir Nabokov’s modern classic, Lolita, has been banned many time since its first publication in the U.S. . Author Dieter Zimmer has put together an impressive collection of 150 book covers … Continue reading →

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BANNED ! … Books Week

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

September 25−October 2, 2010 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information … Continue reading →

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What’s So Scary About These Books ?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Brian D. Butler
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From Here to There

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing website project to archive user submitted hand-drawn maps and other interesting diagrams. The association was created by Philadelphia based artist Kris Harzinski who has collected his favorite maps from the collection to … Continue reading →

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