Neglected books
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Forget-Me-Not
Literature is a graveyard, and Brad Bigelow is digging up corpses. His blog, Neglected Books, covers forgotten published works—it currently has over 700 installments. Bigelow’s scavenging has resulted in renewed attention and even new printings for some of his subjects, such…
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We Must Do Better This Time
The American Scholar is reprinting an article published in its Spring 1970 edition, “Comments on Neglected Books of the Past Twenty-Five Years,” in the hope of making “a small impact” on American literary history, just as the original article’s publication…
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How to Save a Neglected Book
A reader writes to Cynthia Crossen at the Wall Street Journal, “Morley Callaghan is my favorite 20th-century novelist. His “That Summer in Paris” is among the best of memoirs. … Every book lover can list authors who were wonderful and…