The Neglected Books Page

Cover of From This Foundation by Thomas Brackley (pseudonym of Dawson Jackson).

“Nothing is more nerve-wracking than a family conference on finance when the family finances are in a bad way,” Mary Borden writes in No. 2 Shovel Street, her 1949 novel of a widow desperately attempting to resist debt’s steady, ruthless effort to drag her

If we are to believe Jean-Paul Aron, we owe the rise of French cuisine and the invention of the restaurant to the guillotine.

A round-up of novels from 1982 published in the San Francisco Chronicle, 5 December 1982.

A New York City high school in 1930.

The open stacks of the Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington provided the richest part of my undergraduate education.

Helen Grace Carlisle in 1929.

I first came across the work of Dacia Maraini during the year of #WaferThinBooks, when I read Isolina, her reconstruction of the murder of a poor pregnant young woman in Verona.

Nathalie Sedgwick Colby was hardly a typical first-time novelist when Green Forest appeared in the spring of 1927.

At one of the Dumbles’s Cosmic Evenings (their term), W.

Had I bothered to do a bit more research, I wouldn’t have read Swastika.

Cover of the Boiler House Press edition of Season’s Greetings by Herbert Clyde Lewis Herbert Clyde Lewis listened to unheard people.

Cover of So Little Time.

I usually do a little research into an author before preparing an article, but in the case of John Heygate, I thought the few facts I already knew — that his affair with Evelyn Waugh’s first wife led to their divorce and Heygate’s first marriage, and that…