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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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Post a banger that's not in English. youtu.be/_JVtrlpScqI

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T J Maxx is selling cars now.

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An odd mix of studio and newsreel footage meant to create the illusion of a gala premiere, in Glorifying the American Girl, an adaptation of a Ziegfeld revue in an early talkie and pretty much a mess on all counts. Hey! There's Ring Lardner! There's Otto Kahn! There's somebody else to Google!

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On this date in 2014, I wrote about Dormitory Women, R. V. Cassill's second novel and the first of a dozen pulps he wrote in the '50s and'60s. Although ultimately a failed experiment, it and its mates read better now that many of Cassill's "serious" novels. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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In case you were wondering.

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Two movies, one story. Unashamed and Two Against the World, both released in mid-1932, were based on the acquittal of Philadelphia heir Edward H. B. Allen for the 1931 murder of his sister's lover, Francis Donaldson. Allen was acquitted on the basis of the "unwritten law" about crimes of passion.

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One of the first books I wrote about on NeglectedBooks.com was Samuel Rosenman's Working with Roosevelt. At the time, I contrasted FDR's approach to issues, as described by Rosenman, his chief speech writer, and that of G.H.W. Bush, never thinking it could get worse. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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The first jazz album I ever bought, not long after it came out. Still sounds superb.

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I won this gem in an eBay auction. Now...to frame the beast (40"x54")

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"Now, will ya fade?" You learn some great expressions from Pre-Code films. Here, Helen Twelvetrees hears from her long-lost friend, played by Joan Blondell, in search of some jack to pay off the wrinkle. From Millie (1931)

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I just wanted to add that if you like to try before you buy, there are samples of Trance by Appointment and the rest of the Recovered Books series available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

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Today's the day! Back in print for the first time since 1939, Gertrude Trevelyan's last novel, Trance by Appointment, a tale of psychic powers and capitalist exploitation. Available now from @bhousepress.bsky.social (UK) and @asterismbooks.bsky.social (US). 🧵

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Poet and novelist Norman Macleod's THE BITTER ROOTS came out in 1941. And then it was promptly forgotten—until its rediscovery by @neglectedbooks.com. @leiffredrickson.bsky.social has a terrific essay on what the novel says about Missoula and masculinity in the WWI era. thepulp.org/the-bitter-r...

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On this date in 2020, I wrote about This Little Hand, the first novel by Pamela Kellino, daughter of the president of the Gaumont British Picture Corp. and future wife of James Mason. I found it hard to forget these facts when reading this tale of East End poverty and crime. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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I would love to become a card-carrying Galdosista!

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A superb essay on Norman Macleod's The Bitter Roots, published last year in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social in partnership with the University of Montana Press, and the book's deep and bitter roots in the history of Missoula, MT. thepulp.org/the-bitter-r...

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An above average Pre-Code night club scene featuring a rare African-American ensemble. From Okay, America! (1933), in which Lew Ayres plays a Walter Winchell-like gossip columnist. Wish I could find a decent print of this one.

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