Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
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Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
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In Chapter I of Deadlock, Miriam wonders what text to use to teach her new student, Michael Shatov. "If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly," she thinks, quoting from Emerson's essay on Friendship.
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Bruno Frank's novella, The Persians are Coming (1928) seems to foresee the coming of totalitarianism in Europe -- and, sadly, to presume its victory over liberalism in the arts and politics. A fascinating if frustrating book.
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Could we please have more songs about public policy like this?
Inter Library Loan is one of mankind's finest creations.
Folks, help a fine independent musician and treat yourself to some mesmerizing music. Go to @zoekeating.com's Bandcamp page and get access to her oeuvre for under $20.
Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz - Free Education in Nigeria [1977]
I can think of one man in particular who deserves this.
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I have to confess that when I first encountered the work of Julio Cortazar and J.M.G. le Clezio in the Seattle Public Library in the 1970s, I was reluctant to take them seriously because they both looked like male models. (I know, you're wondering, "And this is a problem because..?")
On this date back in 2021, I offered a baker's dozen of neglected Hollywood novels. (And since then two have been reissued by Tough Poets Press, including Ramon Gomez de la Serna's wild modernist fantasy, Movieland).
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The Road: In Search of America is Nathan Asch's 1937 record of his travels by bus across a country devastated by the Depression and the Dust Bowl. More a kaleidoscope of woes than a narrative, it speaks of a writer exhausted by despair, despite his talk of hopes for the U.S.
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The video of the virtual launch of Ethel Mannin's An American Journey, the latest release in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press, is available on YouTube. An entertaining conversation with Joanna Pocock, author of Greyhound and my co-conspirator on this project
The virtual launch of An American Journey by Ethel Mannin, the 20th title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender and Greyhound, who contributed the introduction to this edition, discusses An American Journey and Ethel Mannin's career with series edi
Do you remember when Google made a change to its terms of service saying that any music uploaded to Content ID would from then on automatically be included in YouTube music, and if you didn’t accept, then you couldn’t earn revenue from your songs in 3rd party videos? www.imdb.com/news/ni58208...
Men ought to be horsewhipped, all the grown men, all who have ever had that self-satisfied smile, all, all, horsewhipped until they apologise on their knees.
