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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.
Ach, the people would all have been snobs or bores, our cocktails are better, and yet we can enjoy the same music. All you need is that "Villa on the French Riviera Simulator," or as I call it, vermouth.
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ach, the people would all have been snobs or bores, our cocktails are better, and yet we can enjoy the same music. All you need is that "Villa on the French Riviera Simulator," or as I call it, vermouth.
Feel free to express your "Mirth" over the waggish value of this thread. The End.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Feel free to express your "Mirth" over the waggish value of this thread. The End.
"Meddler" suggests to me that Prof. A. A. Griffith was less than successful in his meddling.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Meddler" suggests to me that Prof. A. A. Griffith was less than successful in his meddling.
"Brute" comes in handy when disappointed with the size of your "Large Fries" portion.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Brute" comes in handy when disappointed with the size of your "Large Fries" portion.
Feel free to substitute "Drunkard" the next time a pharmaceuticals executive has a medical emergency in your Oval Office.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Feel free to substitute "Drunkard" the next time a pharmaceuticals executive has a medical emergency in your Oval Office.
3.7% of French voters chose a candidate other than Emmanuel Macron over his inability to do a halfway decent "Frenchman" (which, of course, must be accompanied by an admiring "Ooh la-la!").
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
3.7% of French voters chose a candidate other than Emmanuel Macron over his inability to do a halfway decent "Frenchman" (which, of course, must be accompanied by an admiring "Ooh la-la!").
"Lover" may, for example, provoke "Coward" from the object of your affections.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Lover" may, for example, provoke "Coward" from the object of your affections.
Take care in using "Lover": it may not always produce the expected results.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Take care in using "Lover": it may not always produce the expected results.
I love this sort of thing, which I call jet set pop, the kind of music you'd expect to hear at a poolside cocktail party at Cap d'Antibes in 1966.
Milton Rogers - Palm Canyon Drive
YouTube video by Lions Den
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November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I love this sort of thing, which I call jet set pop, the kind of music you'd expect to hear at a poolside cocktail party at Cap d'Antibes in 1966.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
youtu.be/yJg1NNyke2E?...
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Music For A Found Harmonium
YouTube video by bendingsyllables
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November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
youtu.be/yJg1NNyke2E?...
youtu.be/yJg1NNyke2E?...
And Macbeth Macbeth?
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
And Macbeth Macbeth?
John Kenneth Galbraith describes the shock experienced by Nellie Rimplegar and thousands of other speculators in his classic, The Great Crash, 1929.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
John Kenneth Galbraith describes the shock experienced by Nellie Rimplegar and thousands of other speculators in his classic, The Great Crash, 1929.
It's available for pre-orders now:
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Virginia Faulkner - Nebraska Press
Featured writer for the Washington Post at twenty. Author of a hit novel at twenty-one. Coaxed Greta Garbo out of seclusion for a Hollywood party. Ghostwrote...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's available for pre-orders now:
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You can read my initial thoughts on Makeshift on NeglectedBooks. I was only able to read this then extremely rare book thanks to the fact that it was available on @archive.org
Makeshift, by Sarah Campion (1940) – The Neglected Books Page
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November 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
You can read my initial thoughts on Makeshift on NeglectedBooks. I was only able to read this then extremely rare book thanks to the fact that it was available on @archive.org
Makeshift is available to preorder now from Boiler House Press, Asterism Books, or your favorite bookshop.
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Makeshift | boiler-house-press
A fascinating and long-neglected novel about the experiences of a German Jewish woman from the end of the First World War to the mid-1930s, her growing awareness of the rise of Nazism and her search f...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Makeshift is available to preorder now from Boiler House Press, Asterism Books, or your favorite bookshop.
www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...