www.NeglectedBooks.com: Where forgotten books are remembered
Posts and articles about neglected books and authors gleaned from the vast digital farmlands of the Web.
In his Guardian Unlimited blog, author Sam Jordison writes, I’ve recently been indulging in the literary equivalent of schadenfreude. Not so much pleasure in someone else’s misfortune, as pleasure in everyone else’s lack of knowledge. …
Source: An Interview with Richard Yates by DeWitt Henry and Geoffrey Clark, Ploughshares, Winter 1972 Here, in an interview from 1972, Richard Yates, who was one of America’s better-known neglected writers during much of his …
Source: “‘Woman Within’: An Unlikely Rebel of the Privileged South,” Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post, 29 November 2003, available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20195-2003Nov28.html Reading through the individual articles in Washington Post Book Editor Jonathan Yardley’s excellent …
Source: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/underappreciated.html During July and August 2006, WNYC’s “Leonard Lopate Show” devotes time to a series of features on “authors that are little-known in America, authors that mysteriously fell out of fashion, and authors who …
Source: http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_gift.html From the Modern Word website, a section devoted to the novelist Thomas Pynchon reprints his contribution to the December 1965 issue of Holiday magazine. Asked to name his favorite neglected book, Pynchon wrote …
Source: http://magnificentoctopus.blogspot.com/2006/07/great-underappreciated-authors-updated.html As part of her literary blog, A Box of Books, Ella asked a number of fellow bookfiends a series of questions about their reading and writing experiences. One of these questions was, Who’s …
Source: http://syntaxofthings.typepad.com/underrated_writers/ Bloggers Jeff Bryant and Trevor Jackson asked other literary bloggers nominate contemporary writers “who aren’t receiving the attention they should.” Each blogger was asked submit up to five names. The complete list, compiled …
Source: www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=1425883 True to form, this prolific and idiosyncratic author includes a few virtually unknown titles, such as Manes Sperber’s trilogy Like a Tear in the Ocean and Micheline Marcom’s The Daydreaming Boy
Source: http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw020214susan_sontag From the great Santa Monica public radio station, KCRW, sound files from the “Bookworm” show of Thursday, 14 February 2002. The late critic and novelist Susan Sontag talks about the discovery of lost …
“Lost Classics: In a culture where people barely read, it would be an exaggeration to say that writers are overrated. Still, some writers get more credit than they deserve, most get less.” by Alan Bisbort …
Source: “Rediscover some of the underappreciated children’s classics of the past,” by Karen MacPherson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tuesday, May 30, 2000 “Every once in a while, however, it’s good to take a step back and rediscover …
Moorish Girl’s Unappreciated Books Archive Since late 2004, Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, has been “asking readers, writers, editors, critics, librarians, or booksellers to weigh in on a book they loved, …
Source: “The lost boys (and girls),” Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, The Independent, 14 November 2004 “It’s a dismal afternoon and I’ve ended up searching for lost authors on the internet: writers who once had flourishing careers, but …
“Try This, 2–Excess in All Things,” by Jane Smiley In this guest post to Ariana Huffington’s blog, Jane Smiley celebrates The Fat and the Thin (also translated as “The Belly of Paris”), a volume from …
Sept. 22 1954 To: Hamish Hamilton … If you want to know what I should really like to write, it would be fantastic stories, and I don’t mean science fiction. But they wouldn’t make a …
from Maud Newton’s Blog, out-of-print expert Robert Nedelkoff nominates three American novelists for rediscovery: “What I’d like to do here is to present to any interested editors (at major houses, or at small presses with …