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Brad Bigelow, writer in Missoula, MT Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (Jan 2026) Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press: www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 12m

Thanks.

On a completely unrelated note, I'd like to ask if you would be interested in writing the introduction to a long-forgotten novel, the second of the two discussed on the page below. If so, please email me at b.bigelow @ uea dot ac dot uk. Apologies for the unconventional approach.

O Western Wind (1943) and You’ve Gone Astray (1944), by Honor Croome – The Neglected Books Page

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21m

"Head off Danny Kean!" Now that our lives revolve around smart phones, I guess we'll never see another one of these sequences of a bunch of men yelling at each other over landlines. From Picture Snatcher (1933).

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2h

Dear writers of creative nonfiction: Creative nonfiction is more than just writing about how you're writing what you're writing.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5h

The video of the virtual launch of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, is available now on YouTube:

Virtual Launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker

YouTube video by Boiler House Press

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5h

Nein, nein. Just used the German title. Read the John Wood translation.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5h

The news is that he didn't screw up and try lecturing his fellow ministers on push-ups and ignoring the laws of armed conflict.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5h

One day in the late 1920s, Barbara Starke walked out her front door and proceeded to hitchhike across the United States and back, managing to avoid any of the myriad ways this could have gone terribly, terribly wrong. Parents should tell their teens this is a work of fantasy.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5h

Joseph und seine Brüder. It can be slow going, but there is A LOT going on beyond Mann's simply telling a story from the Bible. Just the opening, where he reflects on how myths layer upon each other, will give a taste of that.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5h

One day, those tunes will stop bouncing through your brain. You won't necessarily notice when that happens, but later on, you will, and you'll miss it. Just like you'll be glad not to have to lug around a tired 35-lb little person — but you'll also remember that and miss it a bit. Ah, parenthood!

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21h

Merit has little to do with why books go out of print and writers get forgotten. Every reader has the capacity to become a champion and help enrich the canon.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21h

Excellent. I think fans of Greyhound will be interested to see how much has changed... and how much hasn't. The latter, unfortunately, mostly the bad.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21h

I was lucky to be able to track down Ethel Mannin's executor, and once Joanna Pocock agreed to help out, we decided to run with it

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21h

Not sure even the most hardened bus rider could survive a cross country trip with Ethel Merman.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 22h

In 1965, Ethel Mannin traveled across the US, mostly by bus. A woman of fierce mind, in An American Journey she reveals much about flaws in the American dream we still see. I'm delighted to say that Boiler House Press will be reissuing this in 2026 with an introduction by @joannapocock.bsky.social.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

The line and the arrest of the reporter on the first train stop out of Chicago come from the actual experience of co-writer Charles MacArthur. Chicago American editor Walter Howey, angry about MacArthur's quitting, called the police in Gary and told them to arrest MacArthur for stealing his watch.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

Director Lewis Milestone and/or writers Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer find a clever way for Adolphe Menjou to deal with the closing line of The Front Page (1931). In the original play, it's "The son of a b**** stole my watch!"

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

Thanks, I will check it out. And hope for more.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

I appreciate your critical commentary on the actions of this administration. But I wonder what it will take to get any of the dozens of senior officers fired without cause to speak up as well. From the public comments of former CJCS Gen. Brown, for example, you'd think that everything is fine.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

100 years ago, Nathan Asch portrayed what happens when a company goes bust overnight in his first novel, The Office. It's still a fast-moving if grim read.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

As long as they open, “Attached is my dad's $250,000 donation to your school,” who cares what the rest says?

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

I would have to find a good reason to read any of it to evaluate this statement.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

Neglect is not sexist.
There's always more to it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

Good news, though the lack of UK/US publishing coordination in this age continues to amaze me. US bookstores order pallets of Persephone Books to feed hungry readers...because it's too hard to publish in two countries (and US pubs can't be bothered)? Dawn Powell: here, Library of America; UK? Zip.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d

The Prisoners by Orhan Kemal is a Turkish novel I found in the Istanbul Airport back in 2013. Within the walls of a harsh prison, hope and despair hang on the roll of a dice game. A fine example of a one-punch, wafer-thin classic by a man who'd survived such a prison.

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