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In addition to inspiring me to rush out and immediately read \u003cem>Stoner\u003c/em>, Almond's article also got me thinking about how some of my very favorite books are ones that went out of print, and then luckily found their way back into the world again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I'm sure there are plenty of lost books whose disappearance is not a terrible tragedy, it fascinates me to think of the reasons why certain gems are not appreciated at first. Whether because of harsh critics, the trends and inclinations of the era, the fickle proclivities of the reader, the lackluster support of a publisher, or something else entirely, a novel falls out of favor or slips into obscurity. And what brings it back? Why are we ready later rather than sooner?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of Almond's \"besotted\" praise of \u003cem>Stoner\u003c/em>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>I want to revisit some of my favorite books that have risen from their premature graves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/13/3-out-of-print-books-you-need-to-get-your-hands-on/_57/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12119\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-12119\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/57.jpg\" alt=\"$_57\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up, \u003cem>The Changeling \u003c/em>by the incomparable \u003ca href=\"https://www.byliner.com/read/joy-williams/99-stories-of-god\">Joy Williams\u003c/a>. A scathing review arguably killed Williams's second novel when it was published in 1978, and it subsequently went out of print. \u003ca href=\"http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/joy-williamss-30-year-old-comeback-novel/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0\">Thirty years later\u003c/a>, Fairy Tale Review Press published this dark, bizarre, wonderful novel to a more receptive audience. In his introduction to the new edition, Rick Moody writes, \"Thirty years later, the situation looks quite different...the tectonic movements of [Williams's] paragraphs and her narratives no longer looks impulsive, if indeed it ever did. Now it looks like originality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the thing about Joy Williams; there is no one even close to similar. I once heard her say she channels spirit messengers, and her work reads as if that were very true. If you haven't read her, please do so right now. Admittedly, you might not want to start with \u003cem>The Changeling\u003c/em>, as it helps to be a bit in love already before you tackle this one. \u003ci>Escapes\u003c/i> is a good introduction. Become besotted, and then move on to this strange specimen of a second novel. Moody suggests that maybe the late '70s, with its \"punk rock nihilism and...Studio 54 fatuousness\" wasn't the time for this kind of tale. Thankfully, perhaps now is the right time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sample line:\u003c/strong> \"There is no room in life for decorum! At times it is necessary to expose the skeleton within us, to make manifest the death within us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/13/3-out-of-print-books-you-need-to-get-your-hands-on/paula_fox/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12120\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/paula_fox.jpg\" alt=\"paula_fox\" width=\"169\" height=\"259\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up, \u003cem>Desperate Characters, \u003c/em>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/magazine/the-life-and-death-and-life-of-paula-fox.html\">Paula Fox\u003c/a> (also known for being Courtney Love's biological grandmother!). Published in 1970 to critical praise, it still ended up out of print. Also a second novel, \u003cem>Desperate Characters\u003c/em> is a slim, taut, mysterious book filled with a slow building desperation that is creepy, thrilling and hard to summarize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Franzen fell in love with the novel in the library at \u003ca href=\"http://www.yaddo.org/\">Yaddo\u003c/a>, but, when he went to buy his own copy, discovered it was out of print. He wasn't having it, and proceeded to make all sorts of awesome declarations about Fox being a better writer than John Updike and all of her other famous male counterparts. He also wrote an ode to the novel in \u003cem>Harper's,\u003c/em> which finally got the attention of an editor at W.W. Norton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems profound to consider the implications of a novel written during one period of time being reintroduced into the context of a new time and being perhaps even more significant. Franzen writes in his introduction: \"\u003cem>Desperate Characters \u003c/em>is a novel in revolt against its own perfection. The questions it raises are radical and unpleasant. What is the point of meaning -- especially literary meaning -- in a rabid modern world? Why bother creating and preserving order if civilization is every bit as killing as the anarchy to which it's opposed? Why not be rabid? Why torment ourselves with books?\" These questions seem all the more pressing today, as a new set of readers gets the opportunity to read this fantastic book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sample line: \u003c/strong>\"[She] felt an extraordinary relief as though, at last, she'd discovered what it was that could create a balance between the quiet, rather vacant progression of the days she spent in this house, and those portents that lit up the dark at the edge of her own existence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/13/3-out-of-print-books-you-need-to-get-your-hands-on/b4ef9330dca0884bb9f02010-l/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12121\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-12121\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/b4ef9330dca0884bb9f02010.L.jpg\" alt=\"b4ef9330dca0884bb9f02010.L\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I spent a week at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/30661/2014-summer-writers-workshop-faculty-announcement.html\">Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop\u003c/a>, it was in large part due to my love of the not-as-prolific-as-I-wish-he-was genius Charles D'Ambrosio. His impeccably crafted \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/10/11/041011fi_fiction\">short stories\u003c/a> in \u003cem>The Dead Fish Museum\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Point \u003c/em>are some of my favorites. But his essay collection \u003cem>Orphans\u003c/em> is the book I keep sitting on my desk at all times to remind myself of what it means to be a writer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a police stake-out to a hell house to a suicide note, D'Ambrosio finds ways to describe the world that I have never heard before, in turns exacting and lush with feeling. The book itself is a beautiful object, very small, with a ribbon book mark. Now out of print, it's a crapshoot whether you can find it online for $13 or $300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I nervously stood in line to have D'Ambrosio sign my copy at Tin House, he looked surprised to see it and asked, \"Where did you find this little thing? I thought all the copies of it were in my garage.\" Now, thankfully, not only will the essays of \u003cem>Orphans\u003c/em> be available outside of his garage, but D'Ambrosio has new work to share as well. In November, Tin House Books will publish \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2014/03/tin_house_books_will_publish_t.html\">Loitering: New & Collected Essays\u003c/a>\u003c/em>,\u003cem> \u003c/em>which will include all of the eleven essays in \u003cem>Orphans. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sample line: \u003c/strong>\" The difference between the truth and a cliche is the difference between what we really know and what we've all heard about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his praise of \u003cem>Stoner\u003c/em>, Almond writes, \"As a fictional hero, William Stoner will have to dwell in obscurity forever. But that, too, is our destiny. Our most profound acts of virtue and vice, of heroism and villainy, will be known by only those closest to us and forgotten soon enough. Even our deepest feelings will, for the most part, lay concealed within the vault of our hearts.\" Almond says the truest literary critic is time. And perhaps for many of our books that disappear for a while and then return to us, time is insisting we re-examine what at first appeared too complicated, too quiet, too irrelevant. If our deepest feelings lay concealed within the vault of our hearts, perhaps some of these books that persist over the years to reveal themselves to us again, also reveal to us a new part of ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Blind dates wouldn’t exist if we didn’t believe our friends had our best interests in mind, since suggestions are taken purely on faith. While online dating websites and Internet warehouses like Amazon have algorithms for recommending “perfect” matches, I continue to trust people more than I do machines. Call me old fashioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I walked into \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/\">Bookshop Santa Cruz\u003c/a> in February and saw that they had a Valentine’s Day promotion encouraging customers to take a “blind date” with their staff’s favorite books, I knew I couldn’t go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It just so happened that I was already on a date at the time (who, incidentally, I met through friends). After casually browsing the store, my partner and I were both intrigued by a the table of books wrapped in brown paper to disguise their contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each wrapping listed the book’s genre and a few key details. I picked up the “Blind Date with History,” while he considered the “Blind Date with Nature Writing.” I chose, “mid-nineteenth century San Francisco; Mark Twain; Arson,” and he went with “the comfort of wild place; otters & whales.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10135066\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Blind-Date-Wrapped.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10135066\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Blind-Date-Wrapped.jpg\" alt=\"Blind Date Wrapped\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Blind-Date-Wrapped.jpg 852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Blind-Date-Wrapped-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Blind-Date-Wrapped-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wrapped books \u003ccite>(Adrienne Blaine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bookshop Santa Cruz had pegged our interests so well that it seemed as if cupid himself had arranged the bookstand. And while it may seem uncharacteristic for two Millennials, we didn’t hesitate to purchase the books at full price. As far as dates go, $15 is pretty reasonable, especially since a book won’t take one look at you and turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And why shouldn’t we invest as much in books that could change our lives as we do in the promise of even the most fleeting romantic connection? In an age where customers increasingly treat bookstores like showrooms for items they plan to buy online, it’s time to reintroduce some mystery and romance into the tried and true routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookshop Santa Cruz got their Blind Date idea from a customer who had seen a similar promotion at a library. 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"content": "\u003cp>Larry McMurtry may well be the only Academy Award winner who used some of the precious moments of his acceptance speech to thank booksellers: “From the humblest paperback exchange to the masters of the great bookshops of the world, all are contributors to the survival of the culture of the book, a wonderful culture which we musn’t lose,” he told the audience in 2006 as he accepted the Oscar for his screenplay for \u003cem>Brokeback Mountain\u003c/em> — which was based on a short story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and an Oscar-winning screenwriter, McMurtry has been a bookseller for most of his life. He still has a collection of 200,000 books in his private library and store in Archer City, Texas. 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Over the years Earp has been portrayed as a legendary lawman, but McMurtry says it’s a reputation he doesn’t deserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wyatt didn’t do much of anything except drink and pester his wife and run around,” he says. “He didn’t do anything remarkable his whole life, ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMurtry strips Earp down to a guy who doesn’t talk much, hits his wife and gets people killed for no particularly good reason. Earp and Holliday spend a lot of time doing nothing. At one point they try, unsuccessfully, to become stars in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. The duo’s adventures culminate in the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In McMurtry’s portrayal of the confrontation, the shooting happens almost by accident and is over in seconds. Three men are killed, and Earp’s two brothers are injured. Earp lives to be an old man who has forgotten much of his past. 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"content": "\u003cp>Fortunate happenstance has led to me reviewing Laline Paull’s \u003cem>The Bees\u003c/em> alongside Dave Goulson’s \u003cem>A Sting in the Tale\u003c/em>. I am more than a little obsessed with bees, honey, watching wildlife and reading dystopias, and am therefore predisposed to find both books interesting. Together they make a splendid double-header of fiction and non-fiction: there is a precision and economy to the former and an almost lazy charm to the latter that makes them remarkably complementary. Where \u003cem>The Bees\u003c/em> captures the fervor and fierceness of hive life from the perspective of one of its workers, \u003cem>A Sting in the Tale\u003c/em> is very much the narrative of a friendly professor sitting in a garden, holding forth on his favourite subject while watching a bumblebee buzz by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paull’s novel is riveting. Flora 717 is of ignoble kin, the very humblest of workers in a honeybee hive: the Sanitation workers. 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The bees learn the Latin names of flowers by seducing them through pollination; they name all enemies of the hive The Myriad; they have scent-painted histories of the hive in a sort of library. 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Book-ended with the story of the British short-haired bumblebee’s introduction to New Zealand, subsequent extinction in the UK, and very recent plans for its reintroduction with New Zealand stock, \u003cem>Tale\u003c/em> melts memoir and conservation issues into a sweet pot, moving from subject to subject very much in the manner of a foraging bee seeking flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took some getting used to at first; the preface especially seems to delight in relaying boyhood ventures into conservation that go horribly, upsettingly wrong, and the sizzled bees and decapitated quails are rather at odds with the cheerfully indifferent (though perhaps slightly embarrassed) tone in which Goulson describes them. 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