Category Archives: Writing

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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When Are Bookcovers Inappropriate ?

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Not a soul buys a book because of its cover, but diehard booklovers still browse bookshops indulging in the great pleasure of perusing bookcovers. A cheeky, mysterious artist at Plausible-Seeming But Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers has reimagined some cover art … Continue reading →

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How Kafkaesque

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This summer Schocken is releasing a wonderful series of Kafka reissues with cover design by Peter Mendelsund. The cover typography is an amalgam of Kafka’s own handwriting and a typeface called “Mister K” by Julia Sysmäläine of Berlin.

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RIP Gil Scott-Heron

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGlRsjHTkbs-A

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On the Road (around the world)

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Earlier this year we covered the story of the filming of the soon to be released iconic Kerouac novel On the Road. Here’s a roundup of some vintage book covers that tackle the theme in some clever and some bewildering … Continue reading →

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Yale Finally Opens Up

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Yale University has just opened up its museum archives to the public providing limited free online access to images from its vast cultural collections. Currently, they’ve offered access to 250,000 images at their new online catalog, with the goal of … Continue reading →

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