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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.
The art of mixing a cocktail, from One Way Passage (1932). The bartender is played by Mike Donlin. A professional baseball player for 12 seasons, and his career batting average remains in the top 50 of all time. After baseball, he toured in a show with his wife, Mabel Hite.
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The art of mixing a cocktail, from One Way Passage (1932). The bartender is played by Mike Donlin. A professional baseball player for 12 seasons, and his career batting average remains in the top 50 of all time. After baseball, he toured in a show with his wife, Mabel Hite.
M. J. Fitzgerald's story collection, Rope Dancer, is full of Möbius strip-like stories that will remind you of dreams or nightmares or the stuff that makes post-modernist fiction fun. I found her story "Creases" so striking I included a link to a PDF in the article below:
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
M. J. Fitzgerald's story collection, Rope Dancer, is full of Möbius strip-like stories that will remind you of dreams or nightmares or the stuff that makes post-modernist fiction fun. I found her story "Creases" so striking I included a link to a PDF in the article below:
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Hey authors! When's the last time someone asked you to sell tires like Goodyear asked Katharine Brush back in 1937? Slacking off maybe?
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hey authors! When's the last time someone asked you to sell tires like Goodyear asked Katharine Brush back in 1937? Slacking off maybe?
Mamdani is going to impose "Sherry" law, under which everyone will have to come out tonight.
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Mamdani is going to impose "Sherry" law, under which everyone will have to come out tonight.
Like many small investors prior to the stock market crash of 1929, Nellie Rimplegar (Mary Boland) struggles with the concept of buying on margin. From Three-Cornered Moon (1933), in which the idle rich Rimplegar family struggles with another concept: poverty.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Like many small investors prior to the stock market crash of 1929, Nellie Rimplegar (Mary Boland) struggles with the concept of buying on margin. From Three-Cornered Moon (1933), in which the idle rich Rimplegar family struggles with another concept: poverty.
In Search of Virginia Faulkner. How I came to write my first book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, coming in January from the @univnebpress.bsky.social. It all began 17 years ago on NeglectedBooks.com.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In Search of Virginia Faulkner. How I came to write my first book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, coming in January from the @univnebpress.bsky.social. It all began 17 years ago on NeglectedBooks.com.
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Just three weeks to the release of Sarah Campion's Makeshift, the next title in @bhousepress.bsky.social's Recovered Books series. Makeshift follows Charlotte Herz, a young Jewish woman from Berlin in 1919 to New Zealand in 1937, via England, South Africa, and Australia.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Just three weeks to the release of Sarah Campion's Makeshift, the next title in @bhousepress.bsky.social's Recovered Books series. Makeshift follows Charlotte Herz, a young Jewish woman from Berlin in 1919 to New Zealand in 1937, via England, South Africa, and Australia.
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Herbert Clyde Lewis's third novel gets a top of the column notice.
On December 7th, 1941.
@bhousepress.bsky.social (Boiler House Press) will be reissuing Season's Greetings as a Recovered Book in November 2026, with an introduction by @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social. A terrific Christmas novel.
On December 7th, 1941.
@bhousepress.bsky.social (Boiler House Press) will be reissuing Season's Greetings as a Recovered Book in November 2026, with an introduction by @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social. A terrific Christmas novel.
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Herbert Clyde Lewis's third novel gets a top of the column notice.
On December 7th, 1941.
@bhousepress.bsky.social (Boiler House Press) will be reissuing Season's Greetings as a Recovered Book in November 2026, with an introduction by @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social. A terrific Christmas novel.
On December 7th, 1941.
@bhousepress.bsky.social (Boiler House Press) will be reissuing Season's Greetings as a Recovered Book in November 2026, with an introduction by @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social. A terrific Christmas novel.
"Sure, I'll sell myself. Who wants to buy me?" Eily Malyon as a desperate woman at the end of her resources, a glimpse of how far the Great Depression could push people. From Night Court (1932), an underrated account of corruption in the NYC courts and police.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Sure, I'll sell myself. Who wants to buy me?" Eily Malyon as a desperate woman at the end of her resources, a glimpse of how far the Great Depression could push people. From Night Court (1932), an underrated account of corruption in the NYC courts and police.
The Buzzards, Janet Burroway's 1969 novel about an American presidential campaign, is a fine book about the toxic cocktail that results when you mix family dynamics, political ambition, and relentless media coverage (and seems so innocent now).
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November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Buzzards, Janet Burroway's 1969 novel about an American presidential campaign, is a fine book about the toxic cocktail that results when you mix family dynamics, political ambition, and relentless media coverage (and seems so innocent now).
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A killer epigraph. From Muse-Echo Blues by Xam Wilson Cartier.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A killer epigraph. From Muse-Echo Blues by Xam Wilson Cartier.
The other night, I went to see Mel Brooks' first feature, The Producers, on the glorious big screen at Missoula's gem, the Roxy. And I was reminded how the credit sequence -- the music, the editing, the acting, the timing -- announces to the audience: "You're going to see one TERRIFIC movie, folks!"
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The other night, I went to see Mel Brooks' first feature, The Producers, on the glorious big screen at Missoula's gem, the Roxy. And I was reminded how the credit sequence -- the music, the editing, the acting, the timing -- announces to the audience: "You're going to see one TERRIFIC movie, folks!"
In his review of Joan Colebrook's All That Seemed Final (1941), Robert Hillyer wrote that the author "avails herself of the economy of the modern narrative without sacrificing the depth—the underpainting—of the old. I should not like to have missed this novel."
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In his review of Joan Colebrook's All That Seemed Final (1941), Robert Hillyer wrote that the author "avails herself of the economy of the modern narrative without sacrificing the depth—the underpainting—of the old. I should not like to have missed this novel."
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The Illinois Short Fiction series published by the U. of Illinois Press between 1975 and 1993 gave dozens of mostly first-time writers a chance to publish collections.🧵
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Illinois Short Fiction series published by the U. of Illinois Press between 1975 and 1993 gave dozens of mostly first-time writers a chance to publish collections.🧵
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote Ernest Hemingway. Here, from Coming Out Party (1934), is a small example. Even today, those figures are eye-watering.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote Ernest Hemingway. Here, from Coming Out Party (1934), is a small example. Even today, those figures are eye-watering.
Louis Auchincloss published 60+ books in 60+ years, most of them while a working lawyer. He was the Simenon of what used to be called the American Establishment: Groton, Yale, the City Club., Wall St. Yes, his books followed a formula: but it was a good one
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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Louis Auchincloss published 60+ books in 60+ years, most of them while a working lawyer. He was the Simenon of what used to be called the American Establishment: Groton, Yale, the City Club., Wall St. Yes, his books followed a formula: but it was a good one
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Classic novels as nurse novels, a short thread.
My Ántonia.
My Ántonia.
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Classic novels as nurse novels, a short thread.
My Ántonia.
My Ántonia.
Someone with more graphics skills than I should redo classic novels as nurse novels--e.g.,
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Someone with more graphics skills than I should redo classic novels as nurse novels--e.g.,
Get me a nurse novel, Stat!
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Get me a nurse novel, Stat!
Here, in its entirety, is Charles Laughton's episode from If I Had a Million (1932). No commentary is necessary.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Here, in its entirety, is Charles Laughton's episode from If I Had a Million (1932). No commentary is necessary.
Hilde Spiel's 1961 novel The Darkened Room reads like she were trying to exorcise the Central European culture she grew up in. Yet she ultimately returned to Austria and reassimilated into its literary world. A perplexing but fascinating book.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hilde Spiel's 1961 novel The Darkened Room reads like she were trying to exorcise the Central European culture she grew up in. Yet she ultimately returned to Austria and reassimilated into its literary world. A perplexing but fascinating book.
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Random cover from my TBR pile:
A Likeness to Voices by Mary Savage
From the back cover:
Do Witches Like Dry Martinis?
... Go to analysis?
... Live in suburbs?
... Join the P.T.A.?
... Make Love?
DO THEY!!
A Likeness to Voices by Mary Savage
From the back cover:
Do Witches Like Dry Martinis?
... Go to analysis?
... Live in suburbs?
... Join the P.T.A.?
... Make Love?
DO THEY!!
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Random cover from my TBR pile:
A Likeness to Voices by Mary Savage
From the back cover:
Do Witches Like Dry Martinis?
... Go to analysis?
... Live in suburbs?
... Join the P.T.A.?
... Make Love?
DO THEY!!
A Likeness to Voices by Mary Savage
From the back cover:
Do Witches Like Dry Martinis?
... Go to analysis?
... Live in suburbs?
... Join the P.T.A.?
... Make Love?
DO THEY!!
Robert Barrat lectures Richard Barthelmess on money. From Heroes for Sale (1933), a film about late-stage capitalism long before that phrase became commonplace.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Robert Barrat lectures Richard Barthelmess on money. From Heroes for Sale (1933), a film about late-stage capitalism long before that phrase became commonplace.
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100% hard agree. Sterile Sun is incredible and deserves to be reissued.
Another author who, if she had been a man, would still be in print.
Another author who, if she had been a man, would still be in print.
To an extent that puts better-known writers such as Steinbeck to shame, Caroline Slade wrote for the dispossessed, exploited, and impoverished women of the 1930s and 1940s.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
100% hard agree. Sterile Sun is incredible and deserves to be reissued.
Another author who, if she had been a man, would still be in print.
Another author who, if she had been a man, would still be in print.
To an extent that puts better-known writers such as Steinbeck to shame, Caroline Slade wrote for the dispossessed, exploited, and impoverished women of the 1930s and 1940s.
neglectedbooks.com/?...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
To an extent that puts better-known writers such as Steinbeck to shame, Caroline Slade wrote for the dispossessed, exploited, and impoverished women of the 1930s and 1940s.
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