Category Archives: Writing

Tolkien vs Sendak (round 1)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  Would you like to see an edition of The Hobbit illustrated by artist Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are fame ? Well, you can’t. It almost happened, but didn’t, and all because that notorious curmudgeon J.R.R. Tolkien … Continue reading →

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Before Treasure Island

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Nearly 135 years after it was begun, the abandoned first novel by Robert Louis Stevenson has been discovered. The incomplete book, titled The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth, was discovered by literary sleuth and Stevenson scholar Michel Le Bris. … Continue reading →

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Reading Group Guides : Top 25 Picks

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

From December 2010 through mid-February 2011, the Reading Group Guides, an online community for book clubs, surveyed reading groups on their month to month picks for 2010. Based on thousands of responses they came up with a “Top 25 Most … Continue reading →

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How To Read a Tattoo

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Staff Picks

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This week, Melville House Publishing announced the inauguration of the Independent Booksellers Choice Awards — the first award for indie publishing judged by indie booksellers. Why yet another book award ? Because independent booksellers are the cognoscenti, who are hooked-in … Continue reading →

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Happy Belated Public Domain Day

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

The Public Domain Review is a fascinating newish website that reviews literature which has entered the public domain due to copyright expiration. Founded and edited by Jonathan Gray and Adam Green from the Open Knowledge Foundation, London, the site was … Continue reading →

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Tropical Depression:Not A Review

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

I was pleased to receive a review copy of Arin Greenwood’s debut novel, Tropical Depression. Inspired by Greenwood’s own escape to the South Pacific island of Saipan, Tropical Depression is a laugh-out-loud romp with just enough existential angst to keep … Continue reading →

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The Laughing Point

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

If you haven’t been hooked yet by the hilarious new website, Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator, you must give it a try. When you visit the website, just click on “generate new bestseller” and a new title will be generated. Here … Continue reading →

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The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

An unpublished collection of short stories by the groundbreaking author Dashiell Hammett, often named as the originator of hardboiled noir fiction, has been discovered in Austin, Texas. Hammett, best-known for the novels The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and Red Harvest … Continue reading →

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Don’t Judge A Book…

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Brian D. Butler
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