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https://t.co/ii6aiYMP2N: Where you'll find articles on hundreds of long-forgotten and out of print books and authors. Brad Bigelow, editor and evangelist.
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Today's #WaferThinBook : Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (1992, 154p.)
The Senator, the party, the girl, the drunken drive, the crash off the bridge. Oates's chorus chants, 'As the black water filled her lungs, and she died,' as she retells a tragedy of the young trusting the old
Today's #WaferThinBook : Farewell Sidonia by Erich Hackl, tr. Edna McCown (1992, 135p.)
An Austrian couple foster Sidonia, a gypsy girl, only to see her taken and transported to Auschwitz. TLS called it 'a modest and perfect work'—though in the end Hackl says there was no Sidonia?
Today's #WaferThinBook : Hunter of Doves by Josephine Herbst (1954, 49p.)
Herbst published this fictional portrait of her friend, the novelist Nathanael West, in Botteghe Oscure. Since it's scarce now, I've provided PDF, EPUB and Kindle versions here:
neglectedbooks.com/?p=3129
Vol. 1 Brooklyn selects As It Was in the Beginning by Gertrude Trevelyan, coming out on 31 May from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press, as one of its featured books for May.
vol1brooklyn.com/2024/05/06/boo…
📚 Our new blog explores the 'Recovered Books' list for Boiler House Press which republishes outstanding forgotten works of literature and reminds us that quality does not guarantee lasting success, often it’s just luck.
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