Forgotten Writers: Deborah Willis on Shirley Faessler

According to the foreword to A Basket of Apples, Shirley Faessler’s stories began as tales told around a kitchen table. Faessler ran a rooming house for actors in Toronto, and would entertain the entertainers with stories of Yankev the Bootlegger, Henye the Hunchback, and Raisel the Galloping Consumptive. This “witty and uncompromising writer”—as she was…

Forgotten Writers: Daphne Kalotay on Daphne du Maurier

Daphne Kalotay, author of the newly released novel, Russian Winter, revisits Daphne du Maurier in this month’s Forgotten Writers column. The “Other” Daphne: du Maurier’s Short Stories Like many readers, my introduction to Daphne du Maurier came in the form of a paperback edition of Rebecca (the Jane Eyre-inspired novel about an English waif who,…

Forgotten Writers: Michelle Hoover on William Gass

Michelle Hoover talks about William Gass’s In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: I doubt William Gass will ever allow himself to be forgotten, but there are still far too many readers out there who haven’t opened the above story collection only to find themselves dreaming and alone in a cold, windswept place. …

Forgotten Writers: Philip White on Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Philip White: It’s been too hard for too long to find the poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman.  I’m glad to see a new Selected due out soon.  I hope it has all of the sonnets, since there, for me, is where Tuckerman’s strength lies.  A few are already familiar, tucked between the big names in…

Forgotten Writers: David Rivard on Edwin Denby

Memorious contributor David Rivard, author of Otherwise Elsewhere, is this week’s contributor. Neon in Daylight Is a Great Pleasure: Edwin Denby Edwin Denby, like the other poets I considered writing about here—Tom Clark, Alan Dugan, Margo Lockwood—possesses a precision and clarity all the more attractive for seeming off-hand, almost unintentional.  It’s anything but, of course. …

Forgotten Writers: David Baker on Mbembe Milton Smith & Allison Benis White on Killarney Clary

Welcome to our new column, Forgotten Writers. We have invited writers to drop in and tell us about writers who they believe are underappreciated or forgotten. Our first visitors for this series are David Baker and Allison Benis White, and future guests will include Memorious contributors Sean Singer and David Rivard. David Baker on Mbembe…