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Is Big Brother watching?
Content Warning: The following post describes and shows a book being physically altered.
In one of my earlier contributions to the Butterflies & Aliens Library, I shared the process of creating my first altered book project, Spark Unnecessary, using Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as the source work. Since completing that project back in 2017, I’d been pondering other altered books projects based around themes of dystopia and censorship, slowly gathering up materials and ideas.
Small Press Saturday: Hingston & Olsen
This week for #SmallPressSaturday, we are delighted to feature “a literary press in the frozen north” based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with a passion for the physical book at its core: Hingston & Olsen Publishing. Best known as the publishers of the Short Story Advent Calendar, Hingston & Olsen was founded in 2015 by author Michael Hingston and designer Natalie Olsen, according to their website, “as a means of finding out just how far an untested idea could be taken.”
An “I Read Canadian Day” addendum
An amazing and accidental last minute addition to my “I Read Canadian” pile! The Barnabas Project by Terry, Eric, and Devin Fan — The Fan Brothers — edited by Tara Walker, designed by Kelly Hill, and published by Tundra Books.
Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story
There lurk some stranger, darker corners here within the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities. It is against that backdrop, in honour of the annual day of celebration of love and flower shops that we call Valentine’s Day, that I share one of my favourite books of the love poetry genre, Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story.
Eric Gill’s The Four Gospels
Have I mentioned before that my favourite place at the University of Alberta… one of my five favourite places in the world, in fact… is the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library?
Spark Unnecessary
Back in November 2017, I created my first piece of book art, an altered book project that I titled Spark Unnecessary, based on a copy of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
This is the story of that project.
The Monster at the End of this Post
People of a certain age will likely remember a favourite Little Golden Book from amongst their first readers. Mine is, hands down, The Monster at the End of this Book, starring lovable, furry old Grover…
The Symphony of The Book
My father loved classical music. Our frequent visits to the Edmonton Public Library were as much about the records as the books, at least for my dad…
