Out-of-Print Works that Should be Reissued, from the Center for Book Culture
Source: http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no11/readingguides_No11.html
Not long before it published “Overlooked Works of Fiction” in its magazine, Context, the Center for Book Culture asked its academic advisors to name which bookstores in the U.S. have the best backlist of literary fiction, which out-of-print works should be reissued, and which literary websites are most notable. The following list was compiled from their responses.
• African Tragedy, R. R. R. Dhlomo
• Ancient History: A Paraphrase, Joseph McElroy
• And Again?, Sean O’Faolain
• Balcony of Europe, Aidan Higgins
• Captain Maximus, Barry Hannah
• The Dramatic Symphony and the Forms of Art, Andrei Bely
• The Edge of the Storm, Agustin Yanez
• Flats, Rudolph Wurlitzer
• The Forthright Spirit, Chris Marker
• Going Away, Clancy Sigal
• Had I a Hundred Mouths, William Goyen
• The Inconvenience of Living and Other Acts of Folly, Marvin Cohen
• Landscapes after the Battle, Juan Goytisolo
• Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
• The Mangan Inheritance, Brian Moore
• Moira, Julian Green
• Motion Sickness, Lynne Tillman
• Mr. Rouse Builds his House, Stefan Themerson
• No Country for Young Men, Julia O’Faolain
• The Passion Artist, John Hawkes
• Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
• Places in the World a Woman Could Walk, Janet Kauffman
• Seducers in Ecuador, Vita Sackville-West
• The Seventh Horse and Other Tales, Leonora Carrington
• Skin, Kathe Koja
• The Sundial, Shirley Jackson
• That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, Carlo Emilio Gadda
• This is Moscow Speaking and Other Stories, Yuli Daniel
• Up from the Country, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
• A Visit from the Footbinder, Emily Prager
• A Void, Georges Perec
• Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein