Category Archives: Writing

Why Vonnegut Matters

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Like many Kurt Vonnegut fans I became a devoted reader during my early adolescence. If memory serves, the first of his novels that I read was Sirens of Titan, but it could have just as well been Cat’s Cradle. Of course they weren’t teaching … Continue reading →

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What Book Nerds Do

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

H/t to Laura Pacheco and The Wild Detectives

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Take Your Child To A Bookstore

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

The ninth annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, a project developed to “instill a love of bookstores in children so that they will value and support this most precious of resources as they go on to enter and create … Continue reading →

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Or Is It ?

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Brian D. Butler
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NYC: Poe on the street

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

h/t Zimad in Queens  

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Book Week

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Brian D. Butler
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Hard Day At The Writing Desk

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

h/t Tom Gauls

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Another Caturday

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

h/t William Blake

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Literary Road Trips

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

For the last century, American road trips have inspired authors to write great novels and memoirs based on their travels by car, bus, or motorcycle. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jack Kerouac the open road has launched a special form … Continue reading →

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Do you believe in collaborative creation

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Inspired by the popular National Novel Writing Month project — which has aspiring writers around the word producing a 50,000 word manuscript in the month of November — Boook.Land is one of the most engaging and original digital writing schemes in a … Continue reading →

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