www.NeglectedBooks.com: Where forgotten books are remembered
You probably couldn’t find a more resolutely practical novelist than Josephine Lawrence. In the 30-plus adult novels she wrote between 1932 and 1975, she consistently wrote about people coping with problems of everyday life: growing …
“Do you remember when we had a doorman?” is the stock question asked by the older tenants, whose occupancy dates back to the golden days when we had not only a doorman, but adequately uniformed …
I found A Sunset Touch in the Internet Archive, which is interesting, as the book was published in 1960 by Scribner’s, so you’d think its copyright would have been renewed. A cursory check of the …
Does Genevieve Taggard qualify as a neglected writer? After all, her work appears in all the essential thick anthologies: Norton’s Anthology of Literature by Women; Oxford’s Anthology of Modern American Poetry; and the Library of …
“Why are so few novels remembered while so many thousands forgotten?” This is the question Gordon Hutner, professor of English at the University of Illinois, takes up in his new book, What America Read: Taste, …
Rediscoveries, edited by David Madden Crown Publishers, 1971 “The purpose of Rediscoveries,” David Madden writes in the introduction, “is to pay attention, at tribute, to works that are not known, even to many discriminating readers. …
Antaeus magazine’s “Neglected Books of the 20th Century” Beginning its Summer, 1975 issue, Antaeus, a literary magazine edited by Daniel Halpern, published an intermittent series titled, “Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century,” in which a …