Could we please have more songs about public policy like this?
“Restless, witty, independent, shrewd, kind, utterly mendacious, and sometimes completely dishonorable," Thyra Samter Winslow was a fixture of Smart Set and The New Yorker, known for skewering snapshots of the high and the low. Picture Frames (1923) was her first collection.
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Inter Library Loan is one of mankind's finest creations.
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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I can think of one man in particular who deserves this.
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I thought I was coming up on the 20th anniversary of NeglectedBooks.com, but when I checked, it turns out that this was my very first article, posted on May 31, 2006. And to think that I coulda had a cake!*
*If I'd baked it myself.
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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..?")
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
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Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz - Free Education in Nigeria [1977]
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
Working with Roosevelt is Samuel Rosenman's memoir of his years as FDR's personal counsel and speechwriter. It's a reminder that there have been presidents who cared both for the words they used and their effects on the American public, a fascinating insider's story.
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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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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.
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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...
