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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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As it's graduation time, let me remind friends and relatives of graduates of the wise words of Mignon McLaughlin: "Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one returns."

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The opening credits of Grand Slam (1933), one of the few movies spun out of the 1930s craze for bridge. This movie has half the stock character actors of the Pre-Code era: about the only one missing is Nat Pendleton (Google him, folks). Plus a New Yorker cameo.

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Grace Perkins's novel No More Orchids (1932) was published in a triple-decker deal: a book, a magazine serial, and a film version starring Carole Lombard. It offers, therefore, an illuminating example of how one core story gains or loses to meet the needs of each medium. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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R.I.P. Bob Andrews (over Graham Parker's right shoulder), a wonderful pianist & keyboard player. Take this as a reason to hunt down Don't Ask Me Questions, a 2014 documentary about Parker & the Rumour that answers the question, What comes after sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll? A. The rest of your life

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The Mermaids, by Eva Boros (1956) neglectedbooks.com/?...

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When I came across Pamela Bright's memoir of her service as a combat nurse in WWII, Life in Our Hands, I pitched an article on it to @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social. Imagine my delight when they not only accepted but decided to reissue it as a Slightly Foxed book. +

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Teenager girls still sneak drinks of parents' booze when the folks are out of the house, but I wonder how many of them still read Maupassant (his story "Un Vie") for the forbidden thrill? From Road to Ruin (1934), a tale of how reading Maupassant (and other vices) leads to, well, ruin.

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If you're interested in knowing more about Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan and her remarkable novels (four now available from @bhousepress.bsky.social), I invite you to watch the presentation I put together almost 5 years ago, before I had any hope of bringing her work back to print.

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On this date in 2010, I wrote about Thyra Samter Winslow's story collection, Picture Frames, about the pettiness of small and big town life. One Saturday Review reader recommended it saying it had "appeared on the 17-cent counters in the corner drug stores.” neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Join us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from Boiler House Press, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University. Register now on Eventbrite. It's free. www.eventbrite.co.uk...

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They just don't write headlines like they used to.

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A musical number with everything but the kitchen sink. Something like four minutes into "The Pick-Up" in Safety in Numbers (1930), we get Charles "Buddy" Rogers on trombone, followed by Louise Beavers's singing, and then dancing silhouettes against Manhattan scenes.

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'[...] Christopher Burnet was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he spent 526 days in complete isolation.' From the powerful blurb of Solitary Confinement, out now from @bhousepress.bsky.social

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Catherine Gore was among the most prolific authors in an era with no shortage of prolific authors. In 2016, I read her Men of Capitol (1846), whose preface makes me wonder if it's not worth a reread now: “Few will deny that the age we live in is the age of Money-worship." neglectedbooks.com/?...

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If you see this quote post a show with an awesome theme song. (If it sounds vaguely familiar, it's because it was ripped off for Police Squad.) youtu.be/PAhXez5Ib2k?...

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If you've ever had to work on your car in an auto parts store parking lot, you are my brother.

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Erich von Stroheim loses his mind, early talkies style, in The Great Gabbo (1929). You might envy him after you sit through "Caught in the Web of Love," the bizarre musical number with a North Korean-sized cast of dancers that closes the film.

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