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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 · 14h
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 · 14h
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 · 14h
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
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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 · 15h
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 · 17h
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.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 17h
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 · 18h
Thanks, I will check it out. And hope for more.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 20h
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 · 20h
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 · 22h
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?
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
I would have to find a good reason to read any of it to evaluate this statement.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
Neglect is not sexist.
There's always more to it.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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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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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
A (thankfully) brief and small wave of Pre-Code films (e.g., Alimony Madness) portrayed alimony as a married woman's fire exit to Easy Street. Here, in Goodbye Love (1933), Luis Alberni offers an impassioned account of his break-up.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
Thanks, Scott. Your willingness to publish Appius and Virginia gave Trevelyan's renaissance a huge boost.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
I just watched Exposure, a 1932 Poverty Row newspaper story, and who do you think shows up in the first scene as a badly made up murderer in the first scene? He was everywhere.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
That's what I thought when I bought my used copy of Appius and Virginia, but it's not at all similar. Collier's book is a delightful pastiche of Victorian manners and morals, while Trevelyan's is dark and intense.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 1d
Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2d
Wow, this is an impressive collection, a true labor of love. Fascinating browsing. Thanks.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2d
My pet book loves are the stamps from long-forgotten book shops you sometimes find in the front of old book. At Meininger & Co., you could buy envelopes, tennis balls, and a copy of Virginia Faulkner's Friends and Romans.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2d
I never cease to be amazed at how often Nat Pendleton pops up in an old movie. It's as if he would be walking through the studio and someone would grab him, say, "Nat, your line is, 'I'm not so sure about that, boss,'" and shove him onto the set.
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2d
Lights of New York (1928) was Hollywood's first all-talking feature film. Scenes like this (what do you suppose is behind that phone?) illustrate how crude the staging had to be to avoid messing up the sound. But given the acting (sheesh!), I doubt anyone noticed. "Take him for a ride!" "Doh!"
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