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Another Present Era, by Elaine Perry (1990)

10 May 202410 May 2024

Harlem native Michael A. Gonzales has been on the trail of neglected Black writers for a number of years, first with his feature The Blacklist for Catapault and now with CrimeReads. More recently, he was …

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Categories Long Reviews Tags 1990s, dystopia, Elaine Perry, New York City, novel, woman writers

One by One, by Penelope Gilliatt (1965)

17 May 202419 March 2020

When I picked up an old Panther paperback copy of Penelope Gilliatt’s novel One by One at Bookcase, a veritable treasure trove of old books near the cathedral in Carlisle just a few weeks ago, …

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Categories Long Reviews Tags dystopia, England, novel, Penelope Gilliatt, women writers

Skrine, by Kathleen Sully (1960)

13 January 20192 August 2018

None of the four novels by Kathleen Sully I’ve read so far is anything quite like the others, but I feel safe in saying that Skrine is the most unlike the rest. In fact, in …

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Categories Short Reviews Tags dystopia, England, fiction, Kathleen Sully, women writers

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Welcome to the Neglected Books page, edited and mostly written by Brad Bigelow. Here you’ll find articles and lists with thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste.

Some of the books featured here are now being reissued in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.

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My biography of the neglected writer and editor, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, is now available from the University of Nebraska Press.

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  • American Scholar 1956
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  • Antaeus magazine
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  • The New Republic (1934)
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