Saturday, August 30, 2025

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more, 29 August 2025

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Patti Abbott: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Ben Boulden: Front Sight: Three Swagger Novellas by Stephen Hunter Cora Buhlert: Zothique by...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

SSW: from Summer 1953: "The Understanding Secretary" by Kingsley Tufts (THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, 4 July 1953); from FANTASTIC, May 1953: "The Man Who Liked Dickens" by Evelyn Waugh (reprinted from COSMOPOLITAN, September 1933); "The Dark Room" by Theodore Sturgeon & "The Altar" by Robert Sheckley

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"The Understanding Secretary" is an interestingly  not-quite-complex "middlebrow" story about an upper-level executive  ...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more: 22 August 2025

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Patti Abbott: The Dramatist by Ken Bruen Tony Baer: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday (with William Duffy) Frank Babics: Paingod and ...
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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: links to the reviews: 15 August 2025

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Patti Abbott: A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George Frank Babics: Research into Marginal Living: Selected Stories by John D. Keefauver ;...
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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Robert Bloch: "The Clown At Midnight", ROGUE, March 1960; collected in ROBERT BLOCH: APPRECIATIONS OF THE MASTER, edited by Richard Matheson and Ricia Mainhardt (Tor Books, 1995)

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As reprinted in this fine anthology:   (<a link to the essay in this volume online) the paperback edition, 1995 Meanwhile, Ted White (wri...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

FFB: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF '65? by David Wallechinsky and Michael Medved (Random House 1976) and related matters...

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It was a surefire commercial prospect, this book...not altogether unlike the continuing British documentary series that began with 7 Up a...
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