The Works of Love, by Wright Morris (1951)
“In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow.” Wright Morris’s The Works of Love opens “West of the 98th Meridian,” in …
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Wright Morris
As a rule, I limit this site to out-of-print books and long-unpublished authors, but I want to break that rule today to take a little time to celebrate the work of one of my favorite …
The 1970s: When Lit Went SF (and Vice Versa)
A tweet about T. J. Bass’s wildly ambitious and imaginative Nebula Award-winning novel The Godwhale (1974) triggered a short discussion of favorite novels from the 1970s. I was struck by how many of them were …
“Bison Frontiers of Imagination” reissues from the University of Nebraska Press
A site visitor tipped me off to a series of reissues of neglected and long out of print science fiction classics from the University of Nebraska Press, which already deserves credit for keeping many of …
Writer’s Choice
Writer’s Choice: A Library of Rediscoveries, edited by Linda Sternberg Katz and Bill Katz Reston, Virginia: Reston Publishing Company, 1983 Probably the most extensive survey of neglected books ever published, Writer’s Choice lists nearly 1,000 …
The Stone Reader
In his 2002 documentary, Mark Moskowitz “The Stone Reader” follows his quest to find Dow Mossman, author of a long out-of-print book, The Stones of Summer. Years after first buying a copy of the novel, …
Rediscoveries II
Rediscoveries II, edited by David Madden & Peggy Bach Carrol & Graf, 1988 “Among every reader’s favorite books are little-known novels or volumes of stories that someone urged him or her to read. And every …
Rediscoveries
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. …
American Scholar 1970
“Comments on Neglected Books of the Past 25 Years,” published in American Scholar, Spring 1970 (follow-up letters in Summer 1970 issue) Fifteen years after its first feature on neglected books, The American Scholar marked its …
Antaeus magazine
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 …
Publishers of Neglected Books
• Angel Classics Angel Classics was started in 1982 by Antony Wood, an editor and translator from Russian and German, who “felt passionately that much good literature of the past, especially foreign literature, tended to …