Neglected Books
Author of Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (University of Nebraska Press, Jan 2026). Editor, NeglectedBooks.com and the Recovered Books series at Boiler House. Champion of reading off the beaten path.
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Beyond the Street, by Edgar Calmer (1934)
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=11552
A New York City high school in 1930.
“This touching friendship between you two,” a bitter-spirited teacher asks Irving Chemnitz, a colleague at Starrett, a Manhattan high school. “What...
The Life of Fiction, by Jerome Klinkowitz (1977)
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=11531
The open stacks of the Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington provided the richest part of my undergraduate education. I did most of my studying there and took all-too-frequen...
See How They Run and Mothers Cry, by Helen Grace Carlisle (1929)
Helen Grace Carlisle in 1929.
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=11493
At eleven o’clock at night the tenement stairs are dark. Sandy linoleum stairs scraped by the feet of children. Up the stairs and down the stairs. Ma gi...
Soul Wounds, by Al Schak (1934)
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10166
I’m often asked how I find the books I write about. And no matter what I say, I know the only truthful answer is, “Serendipity.” It’s hard to look for something you don’t know about. In...
Dacia Maraini: A Voice for Silenced Women
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=11459
I first came across the work of Dacia Maraini during the year of #WaferThinBooks, when I read Isolina, her reconstruction of the murder of a poor pregnant young woman in Verona. I was d...
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Brad Bigelow, author of Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (University of Nebraska Press,). Editor, NeglectedBooks.com and the Recovered Books series at Boiler House. Champion of reading off the beaten path.
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