A New Home for Readers and Writers

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

The Center for Fiction, which describes itself as “the only organization in the U.S. solely devoted to the creation and enjoyment of fiction,” has announced that its new home will open in Brooklyn, N.Y. in January 2019. The three-story complex, which is currently under construction at 15 Lafayette Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, will include a library, bookshop, a cafe, classrooms, exhibition space, and an auditorium.

Once know as the Mercantile Library, the Center for Fiction is currently located in midtown Manhattan. You can learn more about he organization and the new HQ facility on this website.

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Van Life Baby

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Many, many years ago, I spent some time living in a VW van. It was summertime and I was traveling with my brother Steve, so it was pretty damn awesome. That is until we lost the keys swimming in the Atlantic Ocean down the shore in New Jersey. Anyway, this neat infographic from the folks at Mighty Goods  brought back some fond memories.

 

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Books and Music

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Greenlight Bookstore in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, N.Y. was recently the setting for a new music video called “Good Kisser” from the group Lake Street Dive.

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Wild Books

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”                                                               Virginia Woolf 

 

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Sign, sign everywhere a sign

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Mean Streets of Dublin

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Red Light District

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

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Put A Ring On It

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

© Josema Cutillas

To celebrate the Concéntrico International Festival of Architecture and Design, the Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique encircled the Instituo Esudios Riojanos in Logroño, Spain, with a gigantic faux gold ring. Unfortunately, RINGdeLUXE will only be in place through May.

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Be More Pirate

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

First-time author San Conniff Allende’s new book Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win is all about audacity and risk taking. To prove that he walks the walk, Allende, disguised as a contractor, plastered an eight-meter-long pink fluorescent advertising banner for the book across the facade of the London headquarters of his publisher, Penguin Random House. No word yet on the response to the guerrilla marketing campaign from the publishers.

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Save America’s Oldest Bookstore

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

 

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