May I ADD please?

[Nathan "N.R."]

Was The Hospital or another significant work pub’d pre-1990? If so :: ADD PLEEZE!

[Jimmy]

The Hospital: "first published 1990"

Not sure about his other works.

[Nathan "N.R."]

Damn phone won’t render your comment. All the same, sounds nice. ADD!

[Tonymess]

One I'm not 100% sure qualifies. Australian writer Brian Castro, has been published since 1983 and has 11 novels and one collection of essays. Titles and number of reviews on GR here:

Birds of Passage (1983) – 4 reviews
Pomeroy (1990) – ZERO reviews
Double-Wolf (1991) – 1 review (one star – bloke who wrote it no idea)
After China (1992) – 3 reviews
Drift (1994) – 2 reviews
Stepper (1997) – 2 reviews
Shanghai Dancing (2003) – 7 reviews
The Garden Book (2005) – 4 reviews
The Bath Fugues (2009) – 3 reviews
Street To Street (2012) – ten reviews
Blindness and Rage; A Phantasmagoria (2017), a novel in 34 cantos – 3 reviews

Essays
Looking for Estrellita – ZERO reviews

His books have won numerous awards (too many to mention), but he remains a fringe, under-appreciated, writer in his home country of Australia.

I read his novel in 34 cantos and was blown away, now sourcing all of his earlier works, have now read three of them with other second hand copies in the mail!!

[Nathan "N.R."]

Tonymess wrote: "One I'm not 100% sure qualifies. Australian writer Brian Castro, has been published since 1983 and has 11 novels and one collection of essays. Titles and number of reviews on GR here:"

YES! ADD Pleeze!

[Aloha]

Hi Nathan,
Just read an interesting article in Lapham’s Quarterly on a child prodigy, . She wrote The House Without Windows and Eepersip's Life There at the age of eight. I downloaded a Kindle sample and I can’t believe an eight year old wrote it. She was a literary sensation then disappeared, literally, a missing person. The article on her can be found here:

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/cele...

[Rick]

May I add Alan Kapelner? Author of two novels: Lonely Boy Blues (1944, 2 ratings on Goodreads, no reviews) and All the Naked Heroes (1960, 0 ratings, 0 reviews). More info here: https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=5204 and here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/remaind...

[Nathan "N.R."]

Rick wrote: "May I add Alan Kapelner? Author of two novels: Lonely Boy Blues (1944, 2 ratings on Goodreads, no reviews) and All the Naked Heroes (1960, 0 ratings, 0 reviews). More info here: https://neglectedbo..."

YES!!! ADD please!

[Paul]

May I add Maxwell Bodenheim? I am in the process of recovering his lost novels, all out of print with the exception of two of his novels, Blackguard and Six A.M. which are out there because of me. I do not use OCR, I type them page-after-page while I run a blog devoted to recovering his literary legacy.

https://hobohemiadotblog.wordpress.com/

[Nathan "N.R."]

Paul wrote: "May I add Maxwell Bodenheim? I am in the process of recovering his lost novels, all out of print with the exception of two of his novels, Blackguard and Six A.M. which are out there because of me. ..."

Hell yeS. Looks like you've been doing some seriOUs Spadewerk. Please. A thread and dump a bunch of info on us. I think you've got some eager readers in the offing.

[Rick]

Poet Russell Edson himself is by no means buried. The Tunnel: Selected Poems has 854 ratings and 50 reviews to date. But would his 1984 novel Gulping's Recital meet the criteria for inclusion in this group? (only 2 ratings and 1 review (mine)).

Interesting story behind this publication. I first heard of Edson about a year ago and read everything of his that I could get from interlibrary loans. I waited 6 months before a copy of Gulping's Recital popped up for sale online, which I snatched right away. The last page gives the book's publication details, including the printer/designer's name. He was easy to track down and he gave me the following info:

Although the copyright page lists three separate editions (paperback, hardcover, and leather-bound limited edition of 26 signed copies), only the paperback was ever produced (125 copies, if that, the printer estimated). The book's distribution deal fell through. The printer was forced to close up shop for financial reasons. The original publisher, Guignol Books (Rhinebeck, NY), went out of business shortly after.

As far as I can tell, Gulping's Recital was never reviewed when it was published. Excerpts from the novel appeared in the 1963(!) The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America edited by LeRoi Jones. The only review I could find of that book (The New York Review of Books, January 9, 1964), makes no mention of Edson's contribution.

[Nathan "N.R."]

Rick wrote: "Poet Russell Edson himself is by no means buried. The Tunnel: Selected Poems has 854 ratings and 50 reviews to date. But would his 1984 novel Gulping's Recital meet the criteria for inclusion i..."

YES!!! ADD pleeze! We love BURIED novels by poets!

[Rick]

How about adding The Hungry Girls and Other Stories by Patricia Eakins? 15 ratings (4.53 average) and 8 reviews. Out of print since its first and only edition 30 years ago. New edition coming this December.

[Nathan "N.R."]

Rick wrote: "How about adding The Hungry Girls and Other Stories by Patricia Eakins? 15 ratings (4.53 average) and 8 reviews. Out of print since its first and only edition 30 years ago. New edition coming this ..."

Oh yes. BURIED. ADD pleeze!!

[Jimmy]

FYI I just added 2 new BURIED authors:

Friedo Lampe: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and

Lukas Tomin: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Nathan "N.R."]

YES! And many thanks for doing so. I owe at least one post myself.

[Ronald]

Been seeing some pretty compelling reviews on Lukas Tomin - need to check him out really soon here.

[Rick]

I would like to add George Hitchcock. Several books with 0 ratings and 0 reviews. Only four titles that have been rated, from 4.0 to 4.5. His most popular title on Goodreads is One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader. Haven't read anything by him yet but two people have recommended him to me.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

In 1960 George Hitchcock founded the "San Francisco Review." In 1964, he launched "Kayak "magazine and press. Both established the work and careers of Robert Bly, Raymond Carver, Charles Simic, James Tate, Kathleen Fraser, Anne Sexton, John Haines, W. S. Merwin, Carolyn Kizer, and many others. Hitchcock also authored several books of distinctive, Surrealist poetry, widely produced plays, and fiction. This book includes work from all three genres, and a section on "Kayak."

[Nathan "N.R."]

Yes please! ADD!

[Thomas]

is there a section for generally interesting publishers? i could have sworn there was but i can't see one, and i wanted to make a post about Readers International, whose books seem to be almost uniformly unread for no obvious reason.

[S̶e̶a̶n̶]

Thomas wrote: "is there a section for generally interesting publishers? i could have sworn there was but i can't see one, and i wanted to make a post about Readers International, whose books seem to be almost uni..."

There's the 'Publishers with a BackhoE' thread, but I don't know if N.R. has any rules about what publishers should be listed there, e.g., limited to only republishing/reprinting buried books.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

[Nathan "N.R."]

S̶e̶a̶n̶ wrote: "Thomas wrote: "is there a section for generally interesting publishers? i could have sworn there was but i can't see one, and i wanted to make a post about Readers International, whose books seem t..."

YES. Thanks Sean. And yes definitely skewing toward the BURIED. But many/most pub'rs of the trans'd will fall into that category.

[Nathan "N.R."]

YES! PLEASE! Add!!!!