More Intriguing Stuff Nobody Reads

This could be considered an off-topic rant during Banned Books Week, but...

I rather like the blog of writers no one reads, and today I saw a new (potentially) interesting author mentioned.

Nobody reads W. A. Dwiggins' fiction. Why? Perhaps because his writing is nearly impossible to find. (He was mainly known as a type designer and illustrator.) His prose work is nearly impossible to find due to obscurity and minuscule print runs, in part. But also because right now nobody could republish it even if they wanted to. At least some of it is still under copyright because he died in 1956. And it will still be so until you're long dead. Who knows where his heirs the copyright owners are to ask if we could republish the work?

Now, if you have several hundred dollars to throw around you could buy one of these excessively thin original W. A. Dwiggins tomes, if you could find one, e.g., by searching on Abebooks...

Just one more illustrated reason why posthumous copyright sucks. And here's a short film about the benefits of copyright to dead people. Oh, wait... It doesn't benefit dead people, does it?