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I stumbled across the following references to Vagabond Adventures, Ralph Keeler’s memoir of life as a minstrel player, card shark, low-life, and hobo along the Mississippi and throughout the U.S. in the 1840s and 1850s: …
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 …
Excerpt In 1801, the Annual Register, a popular book which chronicled the year’s events, declared that the outgoing century had been remarkable. Science and technology, more than in any previous century, had leaped ahead. While …
Israel Joshua Singer was the older brother of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. Also a novelist, I. J. Singer wrote several well-regarded sagas of Jewish life in Germany and Poland. Here’s what Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote …
Excerpt There was a fund of resourcefulness, truculence and independence in Robin’s character which made him a most redoubtable opponent. He was of solid bourgeois origin, and as proud of it as another man might …
Little Lives, by John Howland Spyker (pseudonym of Richard Elman) New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1979 · Excerpt · Comments · Review · Locate a Copy Excerpt Lace Curtains Lacey (Lace) Curtains began as a …
Working with Roosevelt, by Samuel Rosenman New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952 Excerpt If a visitor, familiar with the appearance of the Cabinet Room on an ordinary day, were to have looked into it, say …