![]() ![]() ![]() As with all easy aphorisms, it’s only 90 percent true. There’s vast treasure to be found beyond Books in Print consider these essays pieces of a map.Ī debatably wise man once said that the best-seller was a gilded tomb for a mediocre talent. Hence this feature, which will examine and recommend authors whose work has all but disappeared from common view. And thus it’s no longer quixotic (or sadistic) to recommend out of print authors. Thanks to a multitude of online used book sites, it’s now possible to obtain a copy of virtually any book ever printed. But the age of the Internet has dramatically changed this landscape. Formerly, these forgotten friends would languish in library stacks and crop up haphazardly in second-hand bookstores. Contracts expire, reading fads shift, publishers merge or go out of business-and as a result, books disappear. It’s a truth of literature that many books are unjustly forgotten. ![]()
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