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The article didn’t deliver for me. As another commenter mentioned, there were so few books listed that the article is almost not worth reading. I expect follow-
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
The article didn’t deliver for me. As another commenter mentioned, there were so few books listed that the article is almost not worth reading. I expect follow-up articles to be similarly vacuous.
And the author seemed to want to focus on forgotten books written by women and Blacks. Ok, that’s fine, but that doesn’t necessarily make them good books. How about focusing on forgotten books that were popular in their day regardless of the author’s race or gender? (Which may and may not include women and Blacks but also Jews, LGBTQ, and even Whites in no particular marginalized group).
- devindotcom 6y agoGood lord. This is an announcement of a series of in-depth posts by a literary and historical periodical, not a listicle. There will be ten more posts where this came from: https://annotated.laphamsquarterly.org/page/forgotten-best-sellers https://annotated.laphamsquarterly.org/page/forgotten-best-s... Many works by people of color and women have been suppressed or deliberately 'forgotten' by racist and sexist publishers and critics, far more than the white men whose demographic dwarfs the contributions of others regardless of quality. This makes those books worthy of special attention by historians even if they had not, as the post clearly states, already shown their merit by being best sellers on (as you request) their own merits.