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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:
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Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path.
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.
Random cover from my shelves:
The Invention of the West by Alvin Greenberg (1976)
The NY Times reviewer called it, "As crazy as anything conceived by Robbe‐Grillet, papa of the roman nouveau. But it's funnier." Metafiction meets the cowboy novel.
The Invention of the West by Alvin Greenberg (1976)
The NY Times reviewer called it, "As crazy as anything conceived by Robbe‐Grillet, papa of the roman nouveau. But it's funnier." Metafiction meets the cowboy novel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Random cover from my shelves:
The Invention of the West by Alvin Greenberg (1976)
The NY Times reviewer called it, "As crazy as anything conceived by Robbe‐Grillet, papa of the roman nouveau. But it's funnier." Metafiction meets the cowboy novel.
The Invention of the West by Alvin Greenberg (1976)
The NY Times reviewer called it, "As crazy as anything conceived by Robbe‐Grillet, papa of the roman nouveau. But it's funnier." Metafiction meets the cowboy novel.
"I'm honest, I'm proud, and I'm pure." Jack Benny inspires Marie Dressler to do a comic recitation. From Chasing Rainbows (1929), a fun little movie about a struggling theater troupe.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"I'm honest, I'm proud, and I'm pure." Jack Benny inspires Marie Dressler to do a comic recitation. From Chasing Rainbows (1929), a fun little movie about a struggling theater troupe.
After you've seen a dozen or more early musicals, you begin to realize how fundamentally Busby Berkeley transformed how musicals were staged and shot. They might have died off had he and Hermes Pan/Fred Astaire not showed up.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
After you've seen a dozen or more early musicals, you begin to realize how fundamentally Busby Berkeley transformed how musicals were staged and shot. They might have died off had he and Hermes Pan/Fred Astaire not showed up.
Please join Diana Wichtel (Sarah Campion's daughter-in-law), Prof. Sarah Shieff of the University of Waikato, and me for the virtual launch of the Boiler House Press reissue of Sarah Campion's 1940 novel, Makeshift, on 9 December (10 December in AUS/NZ).
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November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Please join Diana Wichtel (Sarah Campion's daughter-in-law), Prof. Sarah Shieff of the University of Waikato, and me for the virtual launch of the Boiler House Press reissue of Sarah Campion's 1940 novel, Makeshift, on 9 December (10 December in AUS/NZ).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-la...
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Margarete Böhme's The Department Store (1912) is five hundred pages long and stocked with nearly as many characters as flowed through the doors of the great Berlin store, Müllenmeister’s Emporium, around which the story centers.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Margarete Böhme's The Department Store (1912) is five hundred pages long and stocked with nearly as many characters as flowed through the doors of the great Berlin store, Müllenmeister’s Emporium, around which the story centers.
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Virginia Faulkner's favorite pastime was sitting in a chair.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Virginia Faulkner's favorite pastime was sitting in a chair.
"I Love the Girls in My Own Peculiar Way." Charlie Ruggles with one of the darkest comic songs in the history of Hollywood musicals. From Queen High (1930).
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"I Love the Girls in My Own Peculiar Way." Charlie Ruggles with one of the darkest comic songs in the history of Hollywood musicals. From Queen High (1930).
A reminder from the November 28, 1925 issue of the Saturday Review of Literature.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A reminder from the November 28, 1925 issue of the Saturday Review of Literature.
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LAUNCH DAY!
Makeshift by Sarah Campion is out today!
Sarah Campion tells the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War and the time of the Weimar Republic to the rise of Nazism and Hitler's takeover as Reichs Chancellor.
Makeshift by Sarah Campion is out today!
Sarah Campion tells the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War and the time of the Weimar Republic to the rise of Nazism and Hitler's takeover as Reichs Chancellor.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
LAUNCH DAY!
Makeshift by Sarah Campion is out today!
Sarah Campion tells the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War and the time of the Weimar Republic to the rise of Nazism and Hitler's takeover as Reichs Chancellor.
Makeshift by Sarah Campion is out today!
Sarah Campion tells the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War and the time of the Weimar Republic to the rise of Nazism and Hitler's takeover as Reichs Chancellor.
At 700 pages, Invasion, Maxence van der Meersch's tale of life in a French industrial town from 1914 to 1918 is a surprisingly fast read -- and one of the rare novels to deal with the experience of occupation. In print again from McGill-Queen's University Press.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
At 700 pages, Invasion, Maxence van der Meersch's tale of life in a French industrial town from 1914 to 1918 is a surprisingly fast read -- and one of the rare novels to deal with the experience of occupation. In print again from McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Samuel Beckett wants to know who's your favorite action figurine.
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Samuel Beckett wants to know who's your favorite action figurine.
Joe Cook was a vaudeville comedian known for his fast-talking nonsense schtick. Here's a sample, from an early Frank Capra talkie, Rain or Shine (1930), as Cook talks a local businessman out of a check for $5,000.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Joe Cook was a vaudeville comedian known for his fast-talking nonsense schtick. Here's a sample, from an early Frank Capra talkie, Rain or Shine (1930), as Cook talks a local businessman out of a check for $5,000.
Veronica Henriques Gosling, daughter of the novelist Robert Henriques and widow of the psychologist Robert Gosling, died on 20 November 2025 at the age of 94. She published five novels between 1955 and 1977. 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Veronica Henriques Gosling, daughter of the novelist Robert Henriques and widow of the psychologist Robert Gosling, died on 20 November 2025 at the age of 94. She published five novels between 1955 and 1977. 🧵
Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.
Google enshittifies what's been my home page since the start of the century. Half the desktop browser window is now a void. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Google enshittifies what's been my home page since the start of the century. Half the desktop browser window is now a void. Happy Thanksgiving.
The Wet Flanders Plain by Henry Williamson (1929) is one of the few accounts I know of a veteran of World War One trench warfare returning to the battlefields he had left behind on a stretcher over a decade before.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Wet Flanders Plain by Henry Williamson (1929) is one of the few accounts I know of a veteran of World War One trench warfare returning to the battlefields he had left behind on a stretcher over a decade before.
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Random cover from my shelves: The Sphere by Ramon J. Sender (1950)
A metaphysical drama set on a transatlantic liner. Cover by Ru van Rossem. Published by Wrey Gardiner's brief but brilliant Grey Walls Press.
A metaphysical drama set on a transatlantic liner. Cover by Ru van Rossem. Published by Wrey Gardiner's brief but brilliant Grey Walls Press.
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Random cover from my shelves: The Sphere by Ramon J. Sender (1950)
A metaphysical drama set on a transatlantic liner. Cover by Ru van Rossem. Published by Wrey Gardiner's brief but brilliant Grey Walls Press.
A metaphysical drama set on a transatlantic liner. Cover by Ru van Rossem. Published by Wrey Gardiner's brief but brilliant Grey Walls Press.
So This is College is the 1929 fantasy film that would have us believe that Robert Montgomery and Elliott Nugent (both around 6' and 150 lbs.) are the stars of the University of Southern California football team.
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So This is College is the 1929 fantasy film that would have us believe that Robert Montgomery and Elliott Nugent (both around 6' and 150 lbs.) are the stars of the University of Southern California football team.
On this date in 2011, I looked back at some of my professors at the University of Washington and the books they wrote that are still worth remembering.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this date in 2011, I looked back at some of my professors at the University of Washington and the books they wrote that are still worth remembering.
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This afternoon's mindblower was learning that the lyrics for this tune were written by Lina Wertmüller.
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Rita Pavone - Viva La Pappa Col Pomodoro (Live 1966)
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This afternoon's mindblower was learning that the lyrics for this tune were written by Lina Wertmüller.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF8g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF8g...
"Datemi un Martello." Italian singer Rita Pavone has a hammer and she looks like she's just trying to decide exactly what or who she's gonna f*** up with it tonight.
RITA PAVONE DATEMI UN MARTELLO 64
ORIGINALISSIMA
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Datemi un Martello." Italian singer Rita Pavone has a hammer and she looks like she's just trying to decide exactly what or who she's gonna f*** up with it tonight.
Blanche Frederici channeling Radclyffe Hall in her portrait of a best-selling author in The Office Wife (1930), with Lewis Stone as publisher. The Office Wife was based on a novel by Faith Baldwin, who was in a partnership with her children's nanny. Was director Lloyd Bacon suggesting something?
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Blanche Frederici channeling Radclyffe Hall in her portrait of a best-selling author in The Office Wife (1930), with Lewis Stone as publisher. The Office Wife was based on a novel by Faith Baldwin, who was in a partnership with her children's nanny. Was director Lloyd Bacon suggesting something?
Brown Face, Big Master, the memoir of Malcolm Gladwell's Jamaican mother, Joyce, was marketed as a religious text, but it's subtle, sensitive, and reluctant to draw universal rules from individual experiences.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Brown Face, Big Master, the memoir of Malcolm Gladwell's Jamaican mother, Joyce, was marketed as a religious text, but it's subtle, sensitive, and reluctant to draw universal rules from individual experiences.
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Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.
Random cover from my shelves: Rule III: Pretend to be Nice by Annabel Dilke (1964)
Naive Katie falls in with Dominic, "an ex-Cambridge petty criminal in elastic-sided boots" who grows marijuana in his window box. Will virtue prevail? Stay tuned
Naive Katie falls in with Dominic, "an ex-Cambridge petty criminal in elastic-sided boots" who grows marijuana in his window box. Will virtue prevail? Stay tuned
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Random cover from my shelves: Rule III: Pretend to be Nice by Annabel Dilke (1964)
Naive Katie falls in with Dominic, "an ex-Cambridge petty criminal in elastic-sided boots" who grows marijuana in his window box. Will virtue prevail? Stay tuned
Naive Katie falls in with Dominic, "an ex-Cambridge petty criminal in elastic-sided boots" who grows marijuana in his window box. Will virtue prevail? Stay tuned