Neglected Book page

I just wanted to mention to the members of this group that there is a website devoted to the subject of underappreciated books and authors:

The Neglected Books page

Stop by and check it out.

Editor@neglectedbooks.com

Thank you!!!!
Just checked the website, and it is awesome!!!
:-)))

I`ve just had a look too - will be back to look properly again. Thanks for that. A++++++++++++.

Nick

P.S. there are groups called Unknown Writers and Underappreciated Writers on LT, if anyone`s keen on that sort of thing.

Sorry, just realised we`re already in Underappreciated Books and Authors. Just getting over some kind of flu virus and not quite back up to speed yet !

N

This looks like a most interesting website! As I'm always looking for the obscure and under-rated, I've bookmarked the url and hope to find time to check it out thoroughly later. Thanks for posting the link!

"Lesser Known Writers" website/blog
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

Capuchin Classics is devoted to keeping in print neglected books (though if I remember correctly they're all neglected Anglo books), as is the recently established Neversink Library, a Melville House imprint. (Sorry, but I've no idea how to create outside links.)

Lost Classics, Rediscoveries, and Rediscoveries II are all anthologies in which various writers discuss their favourite neglected books and are great fun to read.

I'm interested in forgotten books and writers that rather suddenly become better-known or even well-known. It happened to Richard Yates (and I've mixed feelings about that) because of a movie, and probably NYRB have issued reprints that have brought a book to readers' attention & then to prominence. In other cases though I wonder: Why is there suddenly a swell of interest in author X? Perhaps the answer is related to the reason some writers seem to emerge from nowhere & become popular cult writers . . .