Category Archives: USA

I will judge you by your bookshelf

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

If you visit Travel Between The Pages regularly, you probably have noticed that we are big fans of the always clever and insightful cartoon artist Grant Snider. It’s about time that we acknowledge his brilliant book I Will Judge You By … Continue reading →

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Live Your Way Into The Answer

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Rainer Maria Rilke // “Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them…the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in … Continue reading →

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a novel shortcut

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

by Liana Finck  

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Tale for Tale

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

The Teller of Tales Gabriela Mistral translated by Ursula K. Le Guin When I’m walking, everything on earth gets up and stops me and whispers to me, and what they tell me is their story. And the people walking on the … Continue reading →

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Total Eclipse of Rationality

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

American Fascism Now (Rotland Press) offers a chilling look at the United States in 2020, with powerful linocut prints by Sue Coe and text by historian Stephen F. Eisenman. The frightening book chronicles a country on the verge of a … Continue reading →

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Devotion is full of arrows

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

ON KINGDOMS Joanna Klink Who is ever at home in oneself. Land without mercy. Interstates set flickering by night. When I speak to you I can feel a storm falling blackly to the roads, the pelting rains the instant they … Continue reading →

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Censorship Is A Dead End

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Typically held during the last … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn: Word on the Street

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Brian D. Butler
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New York City is going to the dogs

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Doggy Bags, is a new public art installation on Broadway  NYC’s Manhattan Garment District. The sculptures by New York-based artist Will Kurtz are entitled Doggy Bags and are all create from  recycled materials. The works on display are diverse breeds … Continue reading →

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Pulp Fiction Fictions

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Screenwriter Todd Alcott, creates these wonderful digital mashups  that combine the language of pop music and the visual language of 20th century pulp fiction paperbacks. While Alcott finds many of his vintage book covers online, he still discovers a few … Continue reading →

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