I am watching your vlog with The Great American Songbook CD (2) playing. As to the biscuit/cookie you are eating I had lots of those in Denmark and Italy :-). I really appreciate your foray into the list of forgotten or not known classics. I like the NYR books and Pushkin Press because they "resurrect" classics and have quite a lot of East European classics - indeed I know one of their translators. I must admit I do actively look for those books off the beaten track, especially novellas. It is a real joy to find these "gems" - what surprises me greatly is that many of the Nobel Prize winners are...unknown. This is because the publishing world is dreadfully Anglocentric. I recently bought several of the Masterpiece Library of Short Stories edited by J.A. Hammerton - this gave me lots of authors to look up. Some turned out to be very rare. Keep up the vlogs. Really loved this one.
Thank you for all your kind words! Such a good point about Noble Prize winners and Anglocentric publishing - frustrating, but it is so fun to hunt down hidden gems! Thanks so much for stopping by and for such great food for thought!
I’m always intrigued when I hear those words too Sarah! Thank you for sharing some examples, Mikiko and I read Diane Oliver’s short story collection this year and loved it! Neglected books makes me think of Brad Bigelow’s website The Neglected Books Page which you are probably already aware of. I’m always grateful there are people like him and the people at the publishers you mentioned to scout out these hidden gems!
Fascinating video! This must have taken a lot of research, and I really enjoyed hearing about all the presses, books, and authors-most of them new to me. I'm excited to see that a new edition of Lies and Sorcery is coming to the UK via Penguin Classics next year. I’d love to explore more of Oswald Wynd’s out-of-print books. I thoroughly enjoyed The Ginger Tree reprinted by Eland Books, which I believe is his most popular -it was adapted into a BBC TV series in the late ’80s.
You made my day! Thank you for stopping by - Lies and Sorcery is one that I am super intrigued by. Too many books, so little time! And....ohhh! Thanks for mentioning the Wynd books! I'll have to check those out (if I can!!!). Very cool.
Ha! You should turn that haunted paper towel roll into a short story! The thumbnail was trickier for me to figure out than I care to admit - turns out you need light to take a photo - who knew. (And I'm getting pretty close to being a classic myself!)
It’s always made me sad, as a novelist, knowing how much time goes into writing books, that there must be so many masterpieces from the past that we’ll never see. So I love that so many are being brought back. (Unfortunately most of the authors have passed and don’t realize their novels live on.) This week I read The Other, by Thomas Tryon (NYRB, originally published in 1971), and I loved it, so dark and twisted and twisty, I couldn’t put it down. I’d been stressing about the election, and this was the perfect book to immerse myself in to just forget about it all for awhile.
francisco sounds so great i hope it will be published in the uk at some point. i read who was changed and who was dead this yr and it was interesting, im definitely interested in reading more of her work, its quite, not surreal really, but it has a sort of archetypal energy to it or something which is kinda fun & also a little disturbing. spoonhandle is such a good name for a novel lmaa !! & i picked up lies and sorcery this yr but i havent got to it yet ! great list, great video, ofc i want to now buy a bunch more books haha
Oh interesting! your description of the Comyns novel matches what I've heard about it, though I haven't read it yet. Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment and for stopping by!! (LOVE your channel!!)
Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski is another great Polish book. Nonfiction. After WW2 the writer was put into a cell with Jurgen Stroop, a German general responsible for killing tens of thousands of people in Warsaw ghetto. The writer wasn't a criminal, he was jailed by Soviets. He wrote down all what Stroop told him and it is a very interesting one.
Yes! Thank you! There was an interview with Danielle Dutton where she said the copy she was handed wsa from Virago. But no publishers in the US were printing it!
I suggest from Vitold Gobrowicz his book Pornograghy - it's not a pornograghic novel- it's a masterpiece of Polish and European literature of 20th century. It's a story about two friends in the Polish countryside in their vacation and the corruption that they came with them. * sorry for my English , I'm not a native speaker. ** I love the aesthetic of Fitzzcaraldo editions
Any time this topic comes up I want to mention 'Deerbrook' by Harriet Martineau. It's wild to me that everyone goes on about Jane Austen and the Brontes and never mentions Martineau.
I am watching your vlog with The Great American Songbook CD (2) playing. As to the biscuit/cookie you are eating I had lots of those in Denmark and Italy :-). I really appreciate your foray into the list of forgotten or not known classics. I like the NYR books and Pushkin Press because they "resurrect" classics and have quite a lot of East European classics - indeed I know one of their translators. I must admit I do actively look for those books off the beaten track, especially novellas. It is a real joy to find these "gems" - what surprises me greatly is that many of the Nobel Prize winners are...unknown. This is because the publishing world is dreadfully Anglocentric. I recently bought several of the Masterpiece Library of Short Stories edited by J.A. Hammerton - this gave me lots of authors to look up. Some turned out to be very rare. Keep up the vlogs. Really loved this one.
Thank you for all your kind words! Such a good point about Noble Prize winners and Anglocentric publishing - frustrating, but it is so fun to hunt down hidden gems! Thanks so much for stopping by and for such great food for thought!
I’m always intrigued when I hear those words too Sarah! Thank you for sharing some examples, Mikiko and I read Diane Oliver’s short story collection this year and loved it! Neglected books makes me think of Brad Bigelow’s website The Neglected Books Page which you are probably already aware of. I’m always grateful there are people like him and the people at the publishers you mentioned to scout out these hidden gems!
Oh my gosh, I had forgotten completely about that website. Thank you for putting it back on my radar!!
Fascinating video! This must have taken a lot of research, and I really enjoyed hearing about all the presses, books, and authors-most of them new to me.
I'm excited to see that a new edition of Lies and Sorcery is coming to the UK via Penguin Classics next year.
I’d love to explore more of Oswald Wynd’s out-of-print books. I thoroughly enjoyed The Ginger Tree reprinted by Eland Books, which I believe is his most popular -it was adapted into a BBC TV series in the late ’80s.
You made my day! Thank you for stopping by - Lies and Sorcery is one that I am super intrigued by. Too many books, so little time! And....ohhh! Thanks for mentioning the Wynd books! I'll have to check those out (if I can!!!). Very cool.
Thank you. Terrific video.
Thank you so much!
I’m a classic!(57)
I had a haunted roll of paper towel once.
Thanks for brining these books to our attention.
(great thumbnail btw)
Ha! You should turn that haunted paper towel roll into a short story! The thumbnail was trickier for me to figure out than I care to admit - turns out you need light to take a photo - who knew. (And I'm getting pretty close to being a classic myself!)
It’s always made me sad, as a novelist, knowing how much time goes into writing books, that there must be so many masterpieces from the past that we’ll never see. So I love that so many are being brought back. (Unfortunately most of the authors have passed and don’t realize their novels live on.)
This week I read The Other, by Thomas Tryon (NYRB, originally published in 1971), and I loved it, so dark and twisted and twisty, I couldn’t put it down. I’d been stressing about the election, and this was the perfect book to immerse myself in to just forget about it all for awhile.
That's an excellent recommendation - I'll have to check it out! And yes, it's depressing to think of all the books that have gone out of print!
francisco sounds so great i hope it will be published in the uk at some point. i read who was changed and who was dead this yr and it was interesting, im definitely interested in reading more of her work, its quite, not surreal really, but it has a sort of archetypal energy to it or something which is kinda fun & also a little disturbing. spoonhandle is such a good name for a novel lmaa !! & i picked up lies and sorcery this yr but i havent got to it yet ! great list, great video, ofc i want to now buy a bunch more books haha
Oh interesting! your description of the Comyns novel matches what I've heard about it, though I haven't read it yet. Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment and for stopping by!! (LOVE your channel!!)
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Still criminally out of print: Alexander Theroux’s Darconville’s Cat. A great novel.
Excellent recommendation! Thank you!
Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski is another great Polish book. Nonfiction. After WW2 the writer was put into a cell with Jurgen Stroop, a German general responsible for killing tens of thousands of people in Warsaw ghetto. The writer wasn't a criminal, he was jailed by Soviets. He wrote down all what Stroop told him and it is a very interesting one.
Excellent recommendation - thank you so much for mentioning it!
Love, love, love Persephone! Virago re-published several of Barbara Comyns' books, including Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead.
Yes! Thank you! There was an interview with Danielle Dutton where she said the copy she was handed wsa from Virago. But no publishers in the US were printing it!
I suggest from Vitold Gobrowicz his book Pornograghy - it's not a pornograghic novel- it's a masterpiece of Polish and European literature of 20th century. It's a story about two friends in the Polish countryside in their vacation and the corruption that they came with them.
* sorry for my English , I'm not a native speaker.
** I love the aesthetic of Fitzzcaraldo editions
Yes!! Thank you for the reminder and recommendation - I definitely want to check it out. And thank you for stopping by!
Any time this topic comes up I want to mention 'Deerbrook' by Harriet Martineau. It's wild to me that everyone goes on about Jane Austen and the Brontes and never mentions Martineau.
Oh! That's a great recommendation!! Thank you!
Great video! But very bad for my TBR list.
Mine too!! :) But thanks for stopping by!
A collection of short stories called 'A Bad Business' by Dostoevsky (Pushkin Press). Can't find it in bookstores, atleast in my country. :(
Great recommendation - thank you!! Maybe someone will republish it soon!
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