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Brad Bigelow, writer in Missoula, MT Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (Jan 2026) Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press: www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path.

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Joan Blondell offers her sugar daddy a lesson in economics. From The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932).

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Why should anyone read the story of some unknown woman written by some unknown writer? A little attempt to answer that question.

Coming January 2026 from @univnebpress.bsky.social
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
By Brad Bigelow

Available to preorder: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/...

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I think Mary Lasswell's beer-lubricated comedies about Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham and their pixelated friends are back in print now, but if you're looking for a good book to chuckle along with as you sip from your stein, ya can't beat Suds in Your Eye.

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Ah, the good ol' days of telegraphic book reviews!

"New England countryside resounds to roar of high-powered cars, thud of blows, and sighs of cave-man love."

Verdict: Palpitating.

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"Now why don't we sit down and talk this thing over?" Barbara Stanwyck propositions railroadman James Murray (of The Crowd fame) while Theresa Harris serenades. The scene that, for me, puts Baby Face (1933) at the pinnacle of Production Code-flaunting Pre-Code films.

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Bravo, sir!

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That was the closing line in Beckett's first draft.

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A town, but in the mind of the roadkill scraper, a planet.

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Man, I love melodramatic 1960s paperbacks! From that cover, who would guess that poet Maxine Kumin's novel The Passions of Uxport opens with a guy having a spiritual epiphany as he scrapes the corpse of an Irish setter off a New England roadbed?

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Join us for the launch of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, the latest in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, on Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse.

Register on Eventbrite:

Book Launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker

Join us for the launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, a memoir decades ahead of its time, from Boiler House Press

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Matt, we're actually so concerned that we'll end up in a tunnel to Hell that we listen to the Tube announcements.

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"And in the sequel, he'll rip off your head and shit horror down your throat!

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I see your weird books and raise you $100.

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"What a coincidence! Her name is Miranda, too!" Hostess Rose Hobart reels in a sucker in Convention Girl, the Poverty Row substitute for the lost and lamented film, Convention City.

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"DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD DIE!" An advertising slogan sadly in need of revival today. (Not that Fenning's Children's Powder were quite as efficacious as a vaccine.)

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Indeed, though I'm sure we'd all pick a funner book next time.

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I had a great conversation yesterday with Daniel Akst, novelist and now publisher of Tivoli Books, a new press devoted to old and new neglected books, including @jonathangibbs.bsky.social's terrific novel of the art world, Randall. Interesting revivals in the pipeline from Tivoli.

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“I used to wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning filled with morbid thoughts,” Jean Dutuord wrote, “and said to myself that the best way to fix that was to write a book.” Five A.M. was the result. As an account of insomnia, it's a success. As a novel? Comme ci, comme ça.

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They had to talk fast: they were making at least a dozen movies a year, every one of them!

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Ciao, bella.

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"We are all going to die," says the GOP. "But poor people should die first."

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"Saturate the bridgeworks!" Walter Catlett, to Sheila Terry, in Big City Blues (1932) — I will have to put this toast to use soon. Yes, that's Humphrey Bogart, in his seventh feature film.

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"Two can play that game, Laura Branigan!"

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So Far...So Good...So Eighties...

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If you're interested in finding genuinely neglected books, try poking around in the poetry section of a good used bookstore. I did back in 2016 and discovered the work of Helene Mullins, which spoke to one then nearing sixty, and with a parent nearing death.

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