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/AI path.https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mma6kb36jm2bTIL that F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West died within 24 hours of each other: Fitzgerald on December 21, 1940, and West, in a car accident that also took the life of his wife, Eileen McKenney, on December 22.19 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mma6kb36jm2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mma4aovhh22dI'm mulling over options for 2027's reading group and leaning towards a return to the Wafer-Thin Books theme, in which we'd read and discuss a variety of books of 150 pages or less. Let me know if you'd be interested in taking part.19 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mma4aovhh22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm7xuhhhyg2bNat Carr demonstrates several fine Lower East Side ways to express frustration over Grace Hayes's prima donna demands in Rainbow Over Broadway (1933). 19 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7xuhhhyg2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm7nrkcme72hDorothy Richardson on awakening as a return to life. From Interim, chapter-volume 5 of Pilgrimage, which the Reading Pilgrimage group will be discussing on Monday, 1 June, with special guest Dr. Adam Guy. Join the ReadingPilgrimage.com email list to receive the Zoom link.19 May 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7nrkcme72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm7h2wg3yv23Raymond Souster lived in Toronto for almost 90 years, and during most of them, he wrote poems. About the city, its people, its weather, its sports, its garbage, its gardens, its stories and lies and shames. His collected works are the city's 20th century saga. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=900219 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7h2wg3yv23https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm6dge3dnc2dI'm 95% sure this is Wynne Gibson in something from the early 1930s, but can anyone identify the film? This photo is all over the web ... but without any credits.19 May 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6dge3dnc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm5o35w46h2yThe Internet Archive's copy of F. C. Burnand's Happy Thoughts Birthday Book was once owned by Fanny Rose of Chicago, who wrote on October 25, "Never no never eat onions. This is a large world but remember you are not the only one in it." https://archive.org/details/happythoughtsill00burn/page/208/mode/2up18 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5o35w46h2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm5hg6vmbo2o"It's the right outfit for the occasion." Professional co-respondent Joan Blondell has to instruct Frank Albertson in the proper way to be caught in flagrante delicto. From Big Business Girl (1931)18 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5hg6vmbo2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm4wmf4ixd2m"When I evoke those hours of childhood, it is not myself I see before me–it is she, the living image of myself." Isabel Bolton spent the first 14 years of her life as an identical twin—then watched her sister drown. Written at 83, Under Gemini reveals wounds still fresh. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=101318 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4wmf4ixd2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm35m4khkw2hReassuring words. 17 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm35m4khkw2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm2xb76o4k2wHappy 153rd birthday to our Lady of Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson! readingpilgrimage.com https://readingpilgrimage.com/17 May 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2xb76o4k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm2wwffwaq2hLionel Atwill demonstrates the correct way to signal the brewing of an evil plot. Textbook eye narrowing. Watch and practice at home. From Murders in the Zoo (1933), with Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick.17 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2wwffwaq2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mm2iccgjc225Margaret Boylen wrote three lush Gothic-y novels, all about odd families, collections of outcasts, and the challenge of finding a place in the world when you're weird. Too odd for the age of Eisenhower, they vanished and are now utterly forgotten. neglectedbooks.com?p=970217 May 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2iccgjc225https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlyn56zrrw2nIf I don't get another 10,000 followers in the next week, I'm taking this back!16 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyn56zrrw2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlyghlkkbz2uA most unexpected response from the second clerk in the Missing Persons Bureau in this scene from Among the Missing (1934).16 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyghlkkbz2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlxvobtf3k2yTen years ago, @kateem.bsky.social and I were among the few to have worked our way through Dorothy Richardson's 13-volume novel, Pilgrimage, so we decided to sit down (virtually) and share reflections on the experience. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=4158 16 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxvobtf3k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlwqmh77lc2gPosting this because some time before I die I'd appreciate someone else knowing why I enjoy saying, "Why ... you ..." in a surly voice when being told bad news. From the great Bob & Ray: just one of their many unforgettable recurring characters.16 May 2026 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwqmh77lc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlwmhvtu4k2uI just finished teaching a six-week class (for 50-plus aged students) on The Great Gatsby, which turned out to be a blast. But for those of you who do this sort of professionally: what do you do with all the extraneous materials and information afterward? Hope to teach it again someday? https://static.klipy.com/ii/d7aec6f6f171607374b2065c836f92f4/4f/06/APhMSP7v.gif?hh=212&ww=226&mp4=J1W9Ly63NiMa&webm=anHzev2xGZWhH5w116 May 2026 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwmhvtu4k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlw4ob5bjo2bFour RCA Victor Musical Smart Set albums (as in albums of 78s, not LPs) 15 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw4ob5bjo2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlvfafe5lp2yBack in 2019, Rosemary Tonks's The Bloater (1968) was a legitimately neglected book, but thanks to Backlisted Podcast, most of Tonks's deftly comic novels are back in print. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=618915 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvfafe5lp2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mltm7jykhg26The Boxman Cometh. Five years ago today. Preparing to move back to the US after 20 years. Often wish we'd had another option.14 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltm7jykhg26https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mltfjvco7s2o"You don't know it yet, but you've been retired." Gangster Chester Morris learns that Joan Blondell is taking charge, having outgunned him with the best weapon of all: brains. From Blondie Johnson (1933)14 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltfjvco7s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlsuqjwy6o2y“The first 36 pages of The Monkey Puzzle excited me more than any first novel I have read for years,” wrote the Telegraph’s reviewer. “Here, I thought, is a real winner.” Sadly, Veronica Hull should have trusted herself and ignored the men around her—starting with A. J. Ayer. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=895514 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsuqjwy6o2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlr3qh3mdd25O Hitler's a non-smoker and Churchill smokes cigars and they're both as keen as mustard on imperialistic wars. But your Uncle Joe's a worker and a very decent chap because he smokes a pipe and wears a taxi-driver's cap. "Ballad of the Taxi-Driver's Cap" by Hamish Henderson https://archive.org/details/1947balladsofworldwarii/13 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr3qh3mdd25https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlqv3ouqpi2b"Sergeant, I'm bringing you the lay of the land." Director Raoul Walsh enjoyed slipping a few double entendres into the dialogue of The Cock-Eyed World (1929) — something that would have been much harder to pull off with silent film titles. With El Brendel and Victor McLaglen.13 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqv3ouqpi2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlqebgxjlb2mThe Journal of Mary Hervey Russell (1945) was among Storm Jameson's novels that seem to have been fictional autobiographies focused on her complicated relationship with her shipbuilding family from Whitby in Yorkshire. Despite some lyrical passages, it's too often tedious. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=322113 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqebgxjlb2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlolbiyn7e26"I play a game called Impossible to Imagine: Impossible to imagine a Penelope Fitzgerald character who is evil. Impossible to imagine a J. M. Coetzee character having fun. Impossible to imagine a Shirley Hazzard character who needs the lavatory." Michelle De Kretser https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/on-shirley-hazzards-the-transit-of-venus/12 May 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlolbiyn7e26https://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mloelx2rb62oMuch as I adore Ann Dvorak, I have to say that her dancing is very much of the school of Joan Crawford: certainly, um, vigorous. (Also, I'm guessing that her outfit is not historically accurate for World War One frontline entertainers). From Sky Devils (1932)12 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloelx2rb62ohttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlo5s6c5jc2mOn Burt Bacharach's birthday, here's a rare and stunning performance of his song "Make It Easy on Yourself" by the great Sam and Dave. https://youtu.be/QYctCsA4PTE?si=OHqf1teDa2e-OP4U12 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo5s6c5jc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/neglectedbooks.com/post/3mlntu3qghd2yAlthough not that successful as a piece of fiction, Antoinette Spitzer's Life Comes to Judith (1931) illustrates how widely abortion was used as a method of birth control a hundred years ago — and not just by unmarried women. https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1122912 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4isit4uesuen7inryjawffam/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlntu3qghd2y