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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Publishing Pilgrimage
The four volumes of the Libroj edition of Pilgrimage.
About a year ago, I became a publisher. It was an act of desperation.
Back in March 2016, as part of my second year of reading exclusively the work of neglected women writers, I took u...
The Slippery Subject of Best Book Lists
Oh, the peer pressure! An ad for One Hundred Best Books Condensed by Edwin Grozier.
The Guardian recently tested the Pavlovian conditioning of the literary corners of the Internet by releasing a list of the 100 Best Novels compiled from th...
Life Comes to Judith, by Antoinette Spitzer (1931)
Advertisement for Life Comes to Judith.
“Antoinette Spitzer’s heroine in Life Comes to Judith belongs to a comparatively new and, if one may judge by the book sales, an increasingly popular type of amorous adventuress: the young woman on h...
Miss Hard-Boiled (1930)
An illustration from the newspaper serial of Miss Hard-Boiled.
In my research into the source texts (novels, plays, magazine stories) of Hollywood’s earliest sound films — the Pre-Code era, as it’s usually referred to — I have amassed stac...
Why Gale Wilhelm Stopped
Cross-posted from NeglectedBooks.com/?p=11176.
Gale Wilhelm, 1935.
In August, we’ll be publishing a new edition of Gale Wilhelm’s 1935 novel, We Too Are Drifting, in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Despite the fact tha...
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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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