Tin House magazine

Founded in 1999, Tin House magazine, a high-end literary quarterly published by McCormack Communications and edited by Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell, includes in each issue “Lost and Found,” a feature on neglected books. In “Lost and Found,” writers discuss lesser-known books and authors, with three to five pieces in each feature.

The approach is quite similar to that of the “Lost Classics” issue of Brick, another literary quarterly. Usually, the books covered relate in some way to the issue’s theme. Thus, in #15–“Sex”–we find pieces on Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge and Florence Aadland’s camp classic about her daughter’s affair with Erroll Flynn, Big Love.

• After Claude, Iris Owens — selected by John Rowell
• The Battle, Alexander Kluge — selected by David Ryan
• Bertram and His Funny Animals, Paul T. Gilbert — selected by Jeanne McCulloch
• The Big Love, Florence Aadland — selected by John Marr
• Black Friday, David Goodis — selected by David Lehman
• The works of Bohumill Hrabal — selected by Mark Yates
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote — selected by David Trinidad
• Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, Ryan Harty — selected by Peter Rock
• The Burnt Orange Heresy, Charles Willeford — selected by David Lehman
• The Buru Quartet, Pramoedya Ananta Toer — selected by Frank Bures
• Candy, Terry Southern — selected by Gerry Howard
• The Chaneysville Incident, David Bradley — selected by John Frederick Moore
• The Collected Stories, Mavis Gallant — selected by Chris Behaon
• The Comforts of Madness, Paul Sayer — selected by William Giraldi
• Corpus Christi, Bret Anthony Johnston — selected by Chris Offutt
• The Counterfeit Trader, Alexander Klein — selected by David Lehman
• Cress Delahanty, Jessamyn West — selected by Rachel Cline
• The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, George Plimpton — selected by Jonathan Dee
• The works of Danilo Kis — selected by Ales Debeljak
• Dark Hazard, W.R. Burnett — selected by Leslie A. Wootten
• Darkness Falls from the Air, Nigel Balchin — selected by Patrick McGrath
• Don’t Knock the Corners Off, Caroline Glyn — selected by Sallie Tisdale
• Eating Together, Lillian Hellman and Peter Feibleman — selected by Michelle Wildgen
• The Egg and I, Betty McDonald — selected by Mark Caldwell
• 11 Years, 9 Months, and 5 Days: Burger Store Episodes and Frustrations, Greg Tate — selected by Paul Collins
• End of Vandalism, Tom Drury — selected by Paul Winner
• The Face of Spain, Gerald Brenan — selected by Adina Hoffman
• Failing Paris, Samantha Dunn — selected by Janet Fitch
• The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Angela Carter translation), Charles Perrault — selected by P. Genesius Durica
• The Final Opus of Leon Solomon, Jerome Badanes — selected by Helen Schulman
• The Furies, Janet Hobhouse — selected by Dani Shapiro
• The Gay Place, Billy Lee Brammer — selected by Jim Lewis
• The Grass Is Singing, Doris Lessing — selected by Jim Zug
• The works of Harry Stephen Keeler — selected by John Marr
• Heaven Lake, John Dalton — selected by Fred Leebron
• The works of Henry Green — selected by David Ryan
• Her Privates We, Frederic Manning — selected by William Boyd
• Holy Old Mackinaw, Stewart Holbrook — selected by Jon Raymond
• The Honey Badger, Robert Ruark — selected by Gerald Howard
• A Humument, Tom Phillips — selected by Robert Gray
• I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith — selected by Diana Fox
• In The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, Galen Rowell — selected by David Gates
• I See/You Mean, Lucy Lippard — selected by Julia Bryan-Wilson
• The works of Jean Rhys — selected by Susha Guppy
• Julia Paradise, Rod Jones — selected by Kera Bolonik
• The Killing of the Saints, Alex Abella — selected by Eddie Little
• The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Nikolai Leskov — selected by Misha Angrist
• The Last Flower, James Thurber — selected by Jill Koenigsdorf
• Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Patrick McGrath — selected by Amy Bartlett
• Life in Mexico, Frances Calderòn de la Barca — selected by C. M. Mayo
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe — selected by Montana Wojczuk
• The Lonely Doll, Dare Wright — selected by Jean Nathan
• The Long Night of the Francisco Sanctis, Humberto Constantini — selected by Fiona Maazel
• The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, Alistair MacLeod — selected by William Giraldi
• Lost Weddings, Maria Beig — selected by Jim Shepard
• Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner — selected by Kristin Ohlson
• Many Are Called, Edward Newhouse — selected by Susan Choi
• Matigari, Ngugi wa Thiong’o — selected by Frank Bures
• The Miner’s Pale Children, W.S. Merwin — selected by Nathan Alling Long
• Montauk, Max Frisch — selected by Jonathan Dee
• The Motion of Light in Water, Samuel R. Delany — selected by Nathan Alling Long
• The Mountain Lion, Jean Stafford — selected by Anna Keesey
• My Life, Isadora Duncan — selected by Whitney Otto
• My Horse and Other Stories, Stacey Levine — selected by Rachel Resnick
• Myra Brekenridge, Gore Vidal — selected by Gerry Howard
• Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal, J.B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard — selected by Tiffany Lee Brown
• Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Frederick Douglass — selected by Elizabeth Benedict
• Near to the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector — selected by Anderson Tepper
• The New Confessions, William Boyd — selected by Kera Bolonik
• No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achebe — selected by Frank Bures
• Nostalgia for Death, Xavier Villaurrutia — selected by Christopher Merill
• Our Southern Highlanders, Horace Kephart — selected by Beth Kephart
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft — selected by Karl Iagnemma
• Possum Living: How To Live Well Without A Job and With (Almost) No Money, Dolly Freed — selected by David Gates
• Priscilla, Elvis and Me: In the Shadow of the King, Michael Edward — selected by Robert Polito
• The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith — selected by Peter Behrens
• P’s Three Women, Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes — selected by Robert Cohen
• The Revisionist, Douglas Crase — selected by Michael Schiavo
• Rhine Maidens, Carolyn See — selected by Karen Karbo
• The works of R.K. Narayan — selected by S. Shankar
• The works of Shiva Naipul — selected by Frank Bures
• Small Craft Warnings, Kate Braverman — selected by Fran Gordon
• South from Grenada, Gerald Brenan — selected by Adina Hoffman
• “A Stick of Green Candy,” from My Sister’s Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles — selected by Alice Elliot Dark
• Stoner, John Williams — selected by Steve Almond
• Stories Number 1-4, Eugene Ionesco — selected by Tommy Wallach
• The Stories of Breece D’ J Pancake, Breece D’ J Pancake — selected by Andres Dubus II
• The 13 Clocks, James Thurber — selected by Cynthia Kaplan
• Time Will Darken It, William Maxwell — selected by Anna Keesey
• A Train of Powder, Rebecca West — selected by Francine Prose
• True Grit, Charles Portis — selected by Cassandra Cleghorn
• 27 Night Sonnets, Elliott Coleman — selected by Gardner McFall
• Up the Junction, Nell Dunn — selected by Rachel Resnick
• What Can You Do?, James Leigh — selected by Gerald Howard
• What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking, Abby Fisher — selected by Sara Roahen
• Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing, Robert Paul Smith — selected by Sallie Tisdale
• The works of William Plomer — selected by David Leavitt
• The Williamsburg Trilogy, Daniel Fuch — selected by Jonathan Lethem
• Women, Men: The Secret Poems of Paul Verlaine — selected by Bill Wadsworth