Yes, that is in fact a spiraling abyss of books. Check it out at BookLust.
As I was sitting down to put together the first book profile of the second annual Lost Books Month I realized that an introduction might be in order. The number of readers of this blog has grown considerably in 2010 and many may be unaware of the purpose of this month.
Rather than append this intro to the first book (and make one of those gigantic posts I'm guilty from time to time) I decided to do this introduction on its own. The first book will go up tomorrow.
Last year I humbly put forward the idea of a lost books awareness month and proceeded to review a series of titles that fit into that notion. So just what is a lost book?
I am defining a lost book as one that is either Out-Of-Print, teetering on Out-Of-Print status, under translated (see quote below), or even a book that is not available in a reliable edition.
Mostly the notion of "lost" will concern itself with OOP titles. As to the translation concept, here is a quote from last year's inaugural post.
Un-translated: Tell us about any book in a language that is unavailable in another language. Is there somehow a Steinbeck novel unavailable in Japanese and you’d like to see it translated? How about a brilliant North African novel written in French, yet never translated into the English. Let alone all those Peruvian novellas without a home (I am assuming they exist).
Basically, I am asking for participation from readers, writers and publishers. There is a diverse international readership to this blog now and I'd love to hear about some books that we are not aware of in the States.
So please feel free to get involved. I'd love to post reviews or comments on lost books. Due to the new format to the site I will be splitting the Front List from the Back List all month long. The Back List titles will all be "Lost Books" and will go up on Wednesdays.
Spread the word. If you are a blogger or writer and do something on your own site about Lost Books Month tag it such and let me know that you've done so.
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I'm working on an article on Gellu Naum's "Zenobia" but I'll be in Vermont until the beginning of the week.
I also wrote this (http://ghostorballoon.tumblr.com/post/596239351/98-wrecking-crew-by-larry-levis) article on the out-of-print and brilliant poetry collection "Wrecking Crew" a few weeks ago.
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