More tickets have been added if you'd still like to join our conversation about Ali Smith's moving, baffling, amusing, intriguing, and thought-provoking book, Artful

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Today's #WaferThinBook : Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (1992, 154p.)
The Senator, the party, the girl, the drunken drive, the crash off the bridge. Oates's chorus chants, 'As the black water filled her lungs, and she died,' as she retells a tragedy of the young trusting the old

If you've read Ali Smith's Artful and found it as moving, baffling, amusing, intriguing, and thought-provoking as I have, please join the conversation on Wednesday, 15 May.

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Today's #WaferThinBook : Farewell Sidonia by Erich Hackl, tr. Edna McCown (1992, 135p.)
An Austrian couple foster Sidonia, a gypsy girl, only to see her taken and transported to Auschwitz. TLS called it 'a modest and perfect work'—though in the end Hackl says there was no Sidonia?

Today's #WaferThinBook : Hunter of Doves by Josephine Herbst (1954, 49p.)
Herbst published this fictional portrait of her friend, the novelist Nathanael West, in Botteghe Oscure. Since it's scarce now, I've provided PDF, EPUB and Kindle versions here:

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Vol. 1 Brooklyn selects As It Was in the Beginning by Gertrude Trevelyan, coming out on 31 May from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press, as one of its featured books for May.
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New on Neglected Books: Another Present Era by Elaine Perry (1990). A remarkable futuristic dystopian novel that weaves a fascinating tapestry of history, race, climate change, and economic injustice. (Thanks to Michael A. Gonzales for this discovery.)

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84 years later, they're still invading France.

📚 Our new blog explores the 'Recovered Books' list for Boiler House Press which republishes outstanding forgotten works of literature and reminds us that quality does not guarantee lasting success, often it’s just luck.

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