#neglectedbooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #neglectedbooks, aggregated by home.social.
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Well, Adele Garrison wins today's word-wielding contest for "longest novel", perhaps. Except it was serialized over 40 years. Does that count? See the Neglected Books blog:
https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10756Hey authors, just out of curiosity, what's your longest? (Here at #SROP it's a mere 379 kilowords. Hardly in the same league as Garrison, obviously.)
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Thoughts of the day from one of my favorite blogs, Brad Bigelow's "Neglected Books" blog:
https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10205
Over the last few years I've sought out, purchased, and read a fair number of books that I first found through this wonderful blog. But then, I've always been more interested in books I find deep in the jungle, far off the beaten track, rather than the "best-sellers" we can't help but stumble over daily. #books #neglectedBooks #boostodon -
Bibliophiles may like the Neglected Books Page: https://neglectedbooks.com/
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Odd Women in the City. From 2016, a look at Isabel Bolton, Louise Bogan, Alice Koller, Evelyn Scott and other women who celebrated and suffered in their aloneness, inspired by Vivian Gornick's book The Odd Woman in the City.
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Soon after, she became one of the original tenants of 10 Mitchell Place (the address under her signature), an upscale apartment building visited by the likes of Henri Matisse. She remained there until she died in 1964. The NY Times gave her a three-line obituary.
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"Social media discussion platforms are acting as avenues that open up the landscape, that encourage us to discover the diversity of writers and perspectives that exists beyond the narrow and straight lines of the 'Western Canon.'"
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Random cover from the TBR pile:
Going Nowhere by Alvin Greenberg (1971)
Greenberg is a writer I've liked since college, but it's Harry Crews's review in the NY Times that got me interested: "This is the first novel I've been able to finish with a spaceship in it since I was 10.""For my part, I want a writer who can make a book that exists on its own terms, that forces teh reader to accept it for what it is, rather than for what the reader would like for it to have been."
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Random covers from the TBR pile:
Show Girl by J. P. McEvoy (1928)
Follows Dixie Dugan from rags to riches, but most interesting because McEvoy tells the story through a collage of letters, telegrams, & newspaper articles. Mainstream modernism?
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Random cover from the TBR pile:
Confessions of a People Lover by Paul Ritchie (1967)
In a dystopia where youth are in charge & the old ("longlivers") are exterminated, an old man shares his last night and last thoughts with his teenage cellmate.
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Random cover from the TBR pile:
Paris Gazette by Lion Feuchtwanger (1940)
A satirical by sympathetic portrait of the Jewish/German expat community in Paris, this novel came out in April 1940. Weeks later, Feuchtwanger and others like him were prisoners in a Nazi internment camp.
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Turlupin by Leo Perutz (1924/tr. 1996)
A lowly barber gets entangled in the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu and King Louis XIII. Perutz has a number of his slim & fantastic tales in print, but no one seems to be reading them. Shame!
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Random cover from the TBR pile:
A Calendar of Sin by Evelyn Scott (1931)
This massive 1300-page novel is the last in an epic of American history preceded by Migrations (1927) and The Wave (1929) (considered by some to be the best novel of the Civil War).
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Random cover from my TBR pile:
The Cactus Grove by Michel Landa, translated by Edward Hyams (1960)A French boy copes with an abusive father and a bullying older brother. Bought only because I spotted a copy on Flannery O'Connor's shelves in a photo.
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The Neglected Books blog has a good overview of William Plomer's novel "The Case Is Altered", one of the 3 or 4 most profitable books for The Hogarth Press in the 1930s, now forgotten.