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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Florence Meyer Homolka
Eugene Meyer and his family in 1926. Photograph by Edward Steichen. Florence Meyer is the young woman on the bench. Katharine Meyer (later Graham) is behind Florence.
In the course of researching a biography, you come across fascinating pe...
The Art of Eating in France, by Jean-Paul Aron (1973/1975)
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=11585
If we are to believe Jean-Paul Aron, we owe the rise of French cuisine and the invention of the restaurant to the guillotine. For when the French Revolution dispatched hundreds of noble...
Six Novels from 1982
Cross-posted from https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=11564.
A round-up of novels from 1982 published in the San Francisco Chronicle, 5 December 1982.
This is a guest post by Detlev Fischer that draws upon his Reading Matter project on Substack...
The Watson Sisters
Doing some research recently, I stumbled onto a big half-page ad for an act known as the Watson Sisters from a 1944 issue of Variety. "The One and Only Original" it proclaimed. I had to know more about the Watsons. And what a career they ha...
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...
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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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