Category Archives: Writing

Our Kind of Cover Art

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

I know, some of you are shaking your heads and saying “enough with the cover art”, but too bad, cause here’s some more. This year John Le Carré’s U.S. publisher Penguin has reissued most of his novels with stunning new … Continue reading →

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France Supports Its Bookshops

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

In an unprecedented effort to support booksellers in France, an ambitious advertising campaign has been launched this week. A consortium of labor groups that represent booksellers, publishers and bookstores is financing the effort to encourage French readers to visit bricks and … Continue reading →

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Awful Library Books

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Hat-tip to our friends at Any Amount of Books, London for this suggestion: Michigan librarians Mary and Holly have been compiling their hilarious, and sometimes scary, blog of Awful Library Books for almost four years. I know that booklovers and … Continue reading →

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Reading Life: 1st Impressions

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Last Sunday, the New York Times Sunday Book Review inaugurated a new column on writing entitled “Reading Life“, which will be penned by none other Geoff Dyer. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first column, it’s a … Continue reading →

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A True Peake Experience

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) was a prolific and astonishingly original writer and artist, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. To celebrate the centenary of Peake’s birth, the British Library’s exhibition The Worlds of Mervyn Peake … Continue reading →

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Don’t Call Us…

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Shaun Usher, who curates the brilliant Letters of Note blog, which gathers all sorts of fascinating correspondence, postcards, memos,faxes and telegrams, has published a wonderfully amusing letter from the late, great John D. MacDonald. The novelist referenced his early history … Continue reading →

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Holidays Are So Random

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Does William Gibson know about this? Time Is of the Essence (Cold Mailman) Pop Surrealism is now online. Noelle Stevenson (AKA: gingerhaze) is an illustrator and art student who has cleverly reinterpreted the Lord of the Rings as a hipster/comic/buddy … Continue reading →

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Discover Narrative Nonfiction

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  It’s a nonfiction reader’s fanatsy: a database of 30,000 essays, articles and stories carefully curated, organized and presented; and it’s totally searchable by author, topic and publication. Byliner.com, which launched last week, offers a recommendation service that suggests new … Continue reading →

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Art is Funny, Friday is so random & Timothy Leary’s Dead

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Brian D. Butler
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Unbound: bringing authors and readers together

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Unbound is a new way of connecting with writers. Most of the writers on the UK site will be well known, others will appear here for the first time. What’s different is that instead of waiting for them to publish their work, … Continue reading →

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