Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

Week End Eve Ephemera

Posted on September 25, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands. All I want is a little hut in … Continue reading →

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Personal Anthologies

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Brian D. Butler

For the last five years, the writer Jonathan Gibbs has curated a project called A Personal Anthology, where guest editors provide a dozen short story selections. Sometimes the anthologies are Greatest Hits, sometimes they’re personal favorites or central to the … Continue reading →

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Hitchcock meets Hopper

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

I always encourage visitors to New York City’s amazing Metropolitan Museum of Art to save time to see the special exhibitions on the roof. For the past 30 years or so, the museum has commissioned single artist shows for the … Continue reading →

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