1000 novels everyone must read. The Neglected Books Page » The New Republic (1934) “Good Books That Almost Nobody Has Read” and “More About Neglected Books,” from The New Republic magazine, 1934 In early 1934, Malcolm Cowley, then literary editor of the New Republic magazine, sent out a series of letters to a number of America’s leading novelists and critics. “Each year,” he wrote, … a few good books get lost in the shuffle. It may not be the fault of the publisher, the critic, the bookseller—it may not be anybody’s fault except that of the general system by which too many books are distributed with an enormous lot of ballyhoo to not enough readers.
Most of the good books are favorably reviewed, yet the fact remains that many of them never reach the people who would like and profit by them, the people for whom they are written. John Dos Passos He then named six titles as “… books I think should be kept out of the ash barrel • Laugh and Lie Down , by Robert Cantwell • Woman of Earth , by Agnes Smedley • Nobody Starves , by Catherine Brody • Forgotten Frontiers , by Jack Conroy.
Roman History Reading Group: Reading List by Alpha. The Roman History Reading Group: Reading List for 2008. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Abridged / Unabridged Online: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapters XXXVI to the end of Volume III From the sack of Rome by the Vandals to King Arthur, followed by Gibbon's General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West. The second half of Chapter XXXVII and most of Chapter XXXVIII are strictly speaking outside our period. However, after Chapter XXXVIII Gibbon has a section discussing the causes of the fall of the Western Empire. If there is time left, we might discuss other literature on the Fall of Rome. Donald Barthelme's barthelmismo.
They say, he said, that there are flowers all over the city because the mayor does not know where his mother is buried. Donald Barthelme is the father of postmodern fiction and funny as all hell. This page represents everything I could find written by him on the web, some select extra commentary, and some stories I scanned myself or others contributed. If you know of any other full-text sources, chunky excerpts or fun anecdotes please email me. Please check the mini-faq before emailing me DB questions.
WritersareReaders.com -- Where Authors Review Books. But Enough About Me! The Bujold Nexus - The Lois McMaster Bujold Homepage. Literature.org - The Online Literature Library. Diana Gabaldon Home Page. The Writing Life. Berkeley Daily Planet--Milosz profile. Anne Bishop's Official Website. AHA! POETRY. Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card. The Internet Book Database of Fiction :: Home. Pocket Full of Words. Fantastic Metropolis. The Complete works of H. P. Lovecraft.
The Worlds of Sara Douglass. KURT VONNEGUT -- The Official Website of Kurt Vonnegut. Tad Williams. Ursula K. Le Guin's Web Site. Robin Hobb's Home Website.