Hmm I just found out about the "Compose" mode of blogging so now my spaces will actually be spaces?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/best-forgotten-reads.html
"What follows are lost treasures from 25 writers, as they looked back in 1999.
André Aciman: "Count d'Orgel's Ball" by Raymond Radiguet
Margaret Atwood: "Doctor Glas" by Hjalmar Söderberg
Anthony Bailey: two by Marc Bloch - "Strange Defeat" and "Souvenirs de Guerre 1914-15"
John Banville: "By Love Possessed" by James Gould Cozzens
Jacques Barzun: "Practical Agitation" by John Jay Chapman
Alain de Botton: "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly
Thomas Flanagan: "Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War" by Edmund Wilson
Carlos Fuentes: "Paradiso" by Jose Lezama Lima; "Grande Sertão, Veredas" by João Guimarães Rosa and "The Flowering of New England" by Van Wyck Brooks
Robert Giroux: "The Enormous Room" by E.E. Cummings
Nadine Gordimer: "Turbott Wolfe" by William Plomer
Juan Goytisolo: "Petersburg" by Andrei Bely
Thom Gunn: two by Arnold Bennett - "The Old Wives' Tale" and "Riceyman Steps"
Dave Hickey: "The Man Who Loved Children" by Christina Stead
Pico Iyer: "The Road to Xanadu" by John Livingston Lowes
Milan Kundera: "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil
John Le Carré: "The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford and "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household
Elmore Leonard: two by Richard Bissell - "High Water" and "A Stretch on the River"
John Luckas: two by Jean Dutourd - "The Horrors of Love" and "Best Butter"
Frederic Morton: "Lieutnant Gustl" [also published as "None but the Brave"] by Arthur Schnitzler
Paul Muldoon: "Irish Journal" by Heinrich Boll
Cynthia Ozick: seven by Rudyard Kipling - "The Wish House", "Dayspring Mishandled," "Mary Postgate," "The Gardener," "The Eye of Allah," "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Mrs. Bathurst"
Noel Perrin: "Far Rainbow" by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and "The Walls Came Tumbling Down" by Henriette Roosenburg
Gregory Rabassa: "Internal War" by Volodia Teitelboim, "My World Is Not of This Kingdom" by João de Melo and "The Return of the Caravels" by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Susan Sontag: "And Then" by Natsume Soseki, "Jennie Gerhardt" by Theodore Dreiser, "Fateless" by Imre Kertész
Marina Warner: "Anthologie des mythes, legendes, et conles populaires d'Amerique" ("Anthology of Myths, Legends, and Popular Tales of America") by Benjamin Peret
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Photo: Rare books from the Huntington Library's collection. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times"
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