Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT bradbigelow.com 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 path.https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mknv7kucxy2yInteresting choice of caption by the Philadelphia Inquirer (Feb 18, 1932): 29 Apr 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknv7kucxy2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mknokl7yve2yWriting for Pert Kelton always seems to have made screenwriters up their wisecracking game. Here, she surprises ex-husband Skeets Gallagher, now working at a matrimonial bureau, in Bachelor Bait (1934).29 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknokl7yve2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mknibdyzik2yI had the pleasure of speaking with Nancy Pearl on her Book Lust show recently. Here's a clip about the importance of recovering forgotten books, a constant mission for the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social The full interview is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJ8Ec9O4OA29 Apr 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknibdyzik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mknb3u7yhp2bIt was such an honor and delight to be invited to join Nancy Pearl on her Book Lust show to talk about my biography of Virginia Faulkner, my next (I hope) book project, the Recovered Books series, and my life-long quest for neglected books. Thanks, Nancy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJ8Ec9O4OA29 Apr 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknb3u7yhp2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkn5qzjyin2uMary Miller watched her identical twin sister drown as she watched helplessly at the age of 14. They were already orphans, seen as burdens by their family. As Mary Britton Miller and later as Isabel Bolton, in fiction and memoir, she attempted to understand her tragedies. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=802829 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn5qzjyin2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkleqma4ln2uÈ vero.28 Apr 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkleqma4ln2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkl7wrkyc22v"The book read like a novel. It was honestly a lot like reading Stoner, because it was suffused with the same kind of quiet melancholy. But...in the end, there was more hope and more joy." I am enormously grateful to Naomi Kanakia for this review. https://www.woman-of-letters.com/p/neglected-books28 Apr 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl7wrkyc22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkl632uits2bThis is probably the last musical bicycle pump number to appear in any cinema in nearly 100 years. So much for progress. Billy Edison and Charlie Gregory in the Vitaphone short, Two College Nuts (1929)28 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl632uits2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkknboir7p2hBrought from Calcutta to England's last home for lepers in 1947, Peter Greave felt "I stood outside the bounds of human pity." Though marketed as a tale of redemption, his memoir The Second Miracle (1955) is simply a brilliantly written account of a man emerging from hell. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=188028 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkknboir7p2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkiybzdlwk2jFour questions for you fans (or haters) of The Great Gatsby. "They’re a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together." 1. Well, yes, they're a rotten crowd, but what makes Gatsby any better?27 Apr 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkiybzdlwk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkinm3cs7z2h"Beware of your platitudinous ponderosity": good advice from Val and Ernie Stanton. From English as She is Not Spoke (1929), one of several Vitaphone shorts the brothers made. 27 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkinm3cs7z2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mki4sphzik2y"Moe saw the two cabana boys from the Bel Haven move up to the casket and peer down at the lifeless face." Man, I had such hopes for Albert Halper's The Fourth Horseman of Miami Beach (1966). If only he'd stuck with the old Jews and ditched the Cuban dancer subplot! https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=999 27 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki4sphzik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkg55esxwl2yA nickel cup of coffee to anyone who knows why "Love in Bloom" sounds so familiar to a generation that watched reruns of a certain TV series from the 1950s. Kitty Carlisle (also familiar from reruns of "What's My Line?") and Bing Crosby in She Loves Me Not (1934).26 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkg55esxwl2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkfwjxn3422mJimmy Giuffre is one of my role models, an artist who always kept exploring and experimenting. This 2023 post by Ted Gioia shows how he was also a remarkable leader. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfwjxn3422mhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkfuqryej22bThis used to be a country where cookware manufacturers cared about cinema and literature.26 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfuqryej22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkfmdudjw62bFrom 1935 to 1945, Gale Wilhelm published six novels, including We Too Are Drifting and Torchlight to Valhalla, landmarks in American literature as two of the first unapologetically queer novels. Then she stopped writing, apparently completely. I looked in her work for clues. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1117626 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfmdudjw62bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkeplfb2xk2yI actually did last year, to bring Dorothy Richardson's modernist masterpiece Pilgrimage back to print in the US. I'm still in the red—but Dorothy has a bunch more readers than she did before. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 04:25 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkeplfb2xk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkdmoxqi3r2yLynne Overman and George Barbier with a nice demonstration of doubletalk. From She Loves Me Not (1934).25 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdmoxqi3r2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkdfmqkx7k2hI wanted to share the wonderful collection of photobooth photos that we assembled for the cover of our forthcoming edition of Gale Wilhelm's 1935 novel, We Too Are Drifting, in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, with an introduction by @seeshespeak.bsky.social.25 Apr 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdfmqkx7k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkd3vmaund26At 38,000 words, Maurice Baring's Overlooked (1922) qualifies as a #WaferThinBook, and it's an example of what experimental fiction would look like if attempted by an Edwardian alumnus of Eton and Trinity College: clever but perhaps a bit too reluctant to cut loose. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=98725 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkd3vmaund26https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkb4abilan2h"Frankly, my dear, as a star in your own right, you're a failure." Nightclub owner Ian Hunter doesn't believe in soft sell when he tries to talk Barbara Bennett into coming to Paris as his mistress. From Syncopation (1929).24 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb4abilan2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mkalfw5a7g2yHelen Huntington (H. H.) Lynde's Which Grain Will Grow (1952) opens with “A Long Introduction” that consumes 265 of the book’s 433 pages (and offers the first clue to what’s wrong with the book). A detailed portrait of midcentury American life, yes; a neglected gem—sadly, no. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1066824 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkalfw5a7g2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mk6lrmtbda2vFor all the leering sexism that's usually played up as the main feature of Pre-Code films, they sometimes showed more grim emotional intelligence than most American films would be decades after. Here in Young Bride (1932), Helen Twelvetrees abandons her illusions about husband Eric Linden.23 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6lrmtbda2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mk62xul5272yThe Well-Meaning Young Man, by Luise and Magdalen King-Hall (1930), is one of several over-the-top pastiches of cliché fiction the two sisters wrote in the 1930s. In this case, on a British Horatio Alger-like hero collides with some careless people in their vast carelessness. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=616323 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk62xul5272yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mk43cpwp6d2bDorothy Lee was paired up as Bert Wheeler's dance partner and romantic interest in at least a dozen films starting with Rio Rita (1929). Wheeler had five wives; Lee had six husbands. It's hard to watch without wondering if they wouldn't have been better off together.22 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk43cpwp6d2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mk3n63qy3c2iI wrote this book, which is about a writer but not a literary biography. It's published by a university press, but it's not an academic book. It's just a good story about an interesting life — and I keep hoping that someday someone else will mention that. Sigh.22 Apr 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3n63qy3c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mk3ki7tacl2yPeter de Polnay wrote ~100 books in the space of 40+ years. It’s sort of a given that anyone who writes 100 books will produce plenty justly neglected ones. But I found reading his 1947 novel A Pin’s Fee a bit like watching a good B-movie—and I say that as a B-movie fan https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=6682 1/222 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3ki7tacl2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mjzksyni2f2hWatching Hell's Angels (1930) after decades, I realized that I must have suppressed the chilling scene in which crewmen from a Zeppelin leap to their deaths to avoid (unsuccessfully, it turns out) being shot down by RAF fighters. This is enough to suggest its grimness.21 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzksyni2f2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mjyzz5cbd425Kenneth Fearing's Loneliest Girl in the World was the first novel in history about losing something in your computer, which is a neat trick, since it was published in 1951. https://neglectedbooks.com?p=801221 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyzz5cbd425https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mjx2d7ozwm2yA most cosmopolitan opening to Topaze (1933), starring Myrna Loy. (No surprise, given a director with the most cosmopolitan name of D'Abbadie D'Arrast). 20 Apr 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjx2d7ozwm2y