#out of print books

[coochiequeens]

Since that post about Martha Gellhorn is popular here's a post about another writer who is more interesting than Hemingway.

Dawn Powell on the beach, circa 1914.

Tim Page, the Estate of Dawn Powell

This is the third story in The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island series from Radio Diaries. You can listen to the next installment on All Things Considered next Monday, and read and listen to previous stories in the series here.

Dawn Powell infiltrated the writing world by hanging out in bars and taverns around New York's Greenwich Village in the 1920s, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Edmund Wilson.

"She came from nowhere, she was no one," writer Fran Lebowitz told Radio Diaries.

But Powell had a voice. She had style. And she rose from obscurity by turning her gaze on the city of New York itself and its cast of characters. Over the coming decades, Powell wrote novels, diaries and more than a dozen plays — earning her renown, and even a National Book Award nomination.

Then, in 1965, she died. What happened next didn't go according to script.

A voice lost to the world

Powell had been clear in her will: she wanted her body to be donated to the Weill Cornell Medical Center for research. Yet five years after her death, when Cornell asked her executor, Jacqueline Rice, what to do with her remains, Rice left the decision up to the center.

So, unbeknownst to her family and friends, Powell was buried on New York's Hart Island — America's largest public cemetery. Then, all of her work went out of print.

A generational talent of New York was buried in its heart, but lost to the world and those who knew her.

Powell circa 1930, and an entry in her diary circa 1914.

Tim Page, the Estate of Dawn Powell

Hart Island, located off the coast of the Bronx, has no headstones and no plaques. It's often seen as a place for those who went unrecognized in their lifetime — not for well-known writers.

Powell had been writing stories since she was a child. Growing up in Ohio, she endured considerable emotional abuse from her stepmother and often used writing as an escape. In 1918, she left Ohio for New York City, with dreams of being a writer.

"She knew that she was smart enough, good enough to be very good in New York, which is the most competitive place in the world," Lebowitz said.

Powell's humble beginnings in the bars of Greenwich Village turned into a career. In the coming years, she wrote witty pieces on New York life for magazines like The New Yorker and Esquire. Her career picked up steam when she began writing novels about New York: satirical, risque fiction about people who'd come to the city from a small town and indulged in its joys and vices. Her most well known novels include A Time to Be Born (1942) and The Wicked Pavilion (1954).

"She was a very smart, tough, sarcastic, woman who put all of that into her books," said Tim Page, a critic and author of Dawn Powell: A Biography. "She made fun of millionaires and communists. She basically thought human beings were silly and frivolous, but she loved them."

Powell's writing reflected her personal life. Her characters were often young people who ached for success and recognition, but rarely got it. Though her work was in the public eye (her last novel, The Golden Spur, was a finalist for the 1963 National Book Award), she did not reach the level of fame of other writers, male or female, in her era.

"Some critics thought she was mean," Page said. "All the very famous women writers were usually ending their stories with a man and a woman falling in love and living happily thereafter. Dawn had seen enough of life to realize, well, sometimes that's the case but it's not what usually happens in the world."

Powell's diary, December 1932.

Tim Page, the Estate of Dawn Powell

Powell struggled with money for much of her life. She and her husband, Joseph Gousha, had a disabled son who needed costly medical care. By the end of her life, she also needed medical care of her own. She developed intestinal cancer, which led to her death.

While her will was specific about her body going to the Weill Cornell Medical Center, it didn't specify what to do with her body after its donation. In addition to being Powell's general executor, Jacqueline Rice was also her literary co-executor, largely responsible for her literary estate. When her client died, Rice simply stopped responding to inquiries from publishers and filmmakers. It was some time before Rice told Powell's family about where she had ended up.

Years later, Powell's great-niece Vicki Johnson was told by her mother about the burial on Hart Island, also known as a Potter's Field.

"My mom told me it was a Potter's Field, and it was just a place where people are buried who didn't have any money or no family to take care of them," Johnson said. "My grandparents would have certainly found a better resting place for her than where she was buried."

The effort to bring Powell's work back

Powell isn't the only well-known person buried on Hart Island. There's former child actor Bobby Driscoll, who starred in some of the most iconic Disney films of the time, like Treasure Island and Peter Pan — and even won a Juvenile Oscar by the age of 13.

Driscol fell into a pattern of substance abuse and run-ins with the law in his teenage years, ranging from drug smuggling to assault. He was found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment at 31. When no one claimed his body, he ended up on Hart Island.

The cemetery is also home to Rachel Humphreys — the muse and lover to Lou Reed, and the inspiration for several songs on his album Coney Island Baby. Though her official cause of death remains unknown, Humphreys died at the age of 37 at St. Clare's hospital, known for housing AIDS patients. Hers was among the many bodies sent to Hart Island during the AIDS epidemic.

Johnson and others insist Powell wouldn't have minded being buried at Hart Island.

"I think she'd be a little amused by the fact that she's buried with a Disney star and a rock and roller," Page said. "She loved New York. She told the truth about New York and I'm not sure she'd want to be anywhere else."

Dawn Powell circa late 1940s, early 1950s.

Tim Page, the Estate of Dawn Powell

Though Powell's descendants have chosen not to remove her body from Hart Island, there has been a considerable effort to unbury her work. In 1987, her writer and friend, Gore Vidal, published an article in The New York Review of Books, praising Powell as one of American literature's lost greats. The article ignited interest in Powell in the writing world.

Steerforth Press also published a volume of Powell's diaries, edited by Page, in 1998. The Library of America put nine of her novels back in print in 2001.

These days, Powell has gained a cult-like following. Celebrities like Julia Roberts and Anjelica Huston have tried turning her books into films, and she's gotten a shout-out on the TV show Gilmore Girls.

"There will come a time when people will realize that she's one of America's greatest writers," Page said.

This story was produced by Mycah Hazel of Radio Diaries. It was edited by Deborah George, Ben Shapiro and Joe Richman. Thanks also to Nellie Gilles, Alissa Escarce, and Lena Engelstein of Radio Diaries.

This story is the third in a series called The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island. You can find other stories from Hart Island on the Radio Diaries Podcast.

#Dawn Powell #Women writers #Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island #Radio Diaries #1920s #Greenwich Village #Weill Cornell Medical Center #Out of print books #Books by women #A Time to Be Born (1942) #The Wicked Pavillion (1954) #Books about women #Dawn Powell: A Biography by Tim Page #The Golden Spur

[walks-the-ages]

Look what i found on the archive!!!!!!!

Someone uploaded it only a day or two ago 👀👀👀👀👀👀

Faction Paradox fans and those who want to get into it-- check this out!

#faction paradox #fp #the book of the war #out of print books #accessible books #out of print #dw #doctor who #doctor who apocrypha #TBOTW #book of the war #the time war #war in heaven

[quantum-leap-writing-prompts]

1/24/2023

Hello everyone, and welcome to a remastered Masterlist of Quantum Leap Novels included on the Web Archive of Archive.org!

This is not a definitive list -- yet-- of every single Quantum Leap Novel on the archive; that post can be found here. from @fandomjoy ! Instead, this will be a WIP Masterpost of the "Remastered" Quantum Leap Novels, as they're uploaded them to the archive with the help of some volunteers !

What does "remastered" mean in this sense? Well, to start, all of the novels originally on the archive were just PDFs. and by PDFs I mean almost raw book scans, sephia background with black text and everything. Great for finding them in the first place, but not very accessible for people who need larger text, more contrast, or need some kind of audio format.

So, the "remastered" Quantum Leap novels that are linked in this post have been painstakingly edited from those original PDFs into actual, readable, editable Word Documents that were then exported into EPUBs (Generic ebook format, widely used), MOBI (old kindle format) AZW3, (new kindle format(?)) and clean PDFs of black text on a blank white background.

So now, you can download the file format of your choice; everything except PDF should have the option on your ereader or ereader app (ReadEra is my top Android recc, and Calibre for PC) to increase the font size, color, font style, and a ton of background and color options for more accessible reading!

and that's not all ! These links will also include homemade audiobooks of the Quantum Leap Novels, created using the program Balabolka :)

Anyways, it's already a long post, onto the links!

(please note, this is a work in progress, check back here often for updates!)

Begin Masterpost:

Book One: Carny Knowledge Here

Book Two: Too Close For Comfort Here

Book Three: The Wall Here

Book Four: Prelude Here (added 4/3/2023)

Book Five: Knights of the Morningstar Here (added 4/13/2023)

Book Six: Search & Rescue Here (added 4/4/2023)

Book Seven: Random Measures Here (added 4/3/2023)

Book Eight: Pulitzer Here (added 4/13/2023)

Book Nine: Double Or Nothing Here (added 4/5/2023)

Book Ten: Odyssey

Book Eleven: Independence Here (link added 2/8/2023)

Book Twelve: Angels Unaware

Book Thirteen: Obsessions

Book Fourteen: Loch Ness Leap

Book Fifteen: Heat Wave Here

Book Sixteen: Foreknowledge here: (link added 4/3/2023)

Book Seventeen: Song and Dance

Book Eighteen: Mirror's Edge Here (link added 4/3/2023)

separate continuities:

The Beginning (Novelization of the Genesis Part 1 Pilot):

The Ghost And The Gumshoe (Novelization of "A Portrait for Troian", released exclusively in the UK) :

End Notes:

As of 1/24/2023, we still need a physical copy of Foreknowledge to even begin the digitalization process! We were very lucky and two of us were able to get Mirror's Edge for under $60, but Foreknowledge is still very expensive out there!

If you have a physical copy of Foreknowledge on hand please consider DMing me or joining the Quantum Leap Lovers Discord to find out how you can help contribute :)

1/24/2023: Book 15: heatwave is currently being re-edited to make a cleaner page scan (no watermarks or fingers visible) and then it will get the Epubs, mobies, clean PDF, audiobooks, etc uploaded once the OCR has been cleaned up. 4/3/2023 done! original pdf has been cleaned up and reuploaded as an edit, and the other files will follow in the next hour or so.

4/3/2023: Someone uploaded an old book scan of Foreknowledge to the web archive ;)

#Quantum Leap #long post #bold text #this post is a work in progress! #Ql #Quantum Leap Novels #Project Quantum Leap Novels #book preservation #media preservation #out of print books #accessibility

[theahole]

New listings in my used book store!

Worked really hard and put up 61 listings in my used book etsy. I already sold one, which will just about cover the fees. Here are some highlights:

Official published BtVS fanfic!

Plus lots more! You can find these here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/talesresold Please always read the description to know what you're buying. Thank you!

#serial killers #wicked willow #totoro #doctor who #good burger #daniel pinkwater #christopher pike #Robert R McCammon #used books #out of print books #BtVS

[fashionbooksmilano]

Paul Strand  Il mondo davanti alla mia porta

Catherine Duncan, Ute Eskildsen

Alinari, Firenze 2010,114 pagine, rilegato, 24 x 29 cm, ISBN 9788872925300

euro 45,00 

email if you want to buy :[email protected]

Per la prima volta "il mondo davanti alla mia porta" raccoglie, in un unico volume, le fotografie migliore eseguite da Strand negli anni trascorsi in Europa (1950-1976), riprodotta da rare stampe d'epoca. Organizzate in sequenze geografiche (Francia, Italia, Ebridi, Romania, Egitto, Marocco e Ghana), le 88 immagini riprodotte si impongono per il loro forte senso di integrità formale. Ci troviamo davanti ad un ritratto fresco e vibrante di Strands come uomo, della sua visione e della sua fede costante nello spirito umano e nel suo rinnovamento.

06/11/22

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#Paul Strand #photography books #libri di fotografia #1950.1976 #88 immagini #Europa #Egitto #Marocco #Ghana #Francia #Italia #Romania #Ebridi #out of print books #rare books #fashionbooksmilano

[raintides]

they're going shopping

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #tara is chaperoning #mr dekarios! i daresay your bag cannot possibly get any fuller #(gale kicked puppy expression) but this book has been out of print for AGES #tara the tressym

[sunlit-music]

Oh god, I miss those books in Target Australia where they had mystery romances based on the Zodiac signs. If you’re Australian and went to Target (and you’re a Gen X or Millenial, you probably know which books I’m talking about). It’s the one where the Taurus main character is an actress and has to escape a stalker. 

I might be mixing up book series, but I think the Pisces girl had psychic super powers she used for helping other people. I was like, “Forget being a hot actress, I want the psychic powers!” when I was a kid. XD 

I love those books, and it’s embarassing to say this, but I can’t find them anywhere, despite learning good book finding skills from studying a Diploma in Library Science. I think those books might be out of print. The author’s Australian, as far as I can tell. I’ve forgotten their name. 

#zodiac #books #book series #out of print books #australia

[parshallison]

In June, I was watching a YouTube video about asexuality when someone mentioned that asexual people aren't subjected to conversion therapy. This didn't sit right with me at all. A quick fact-check Google search quickly sent me down a rabbit hole about how a lack of sexual attraction is often treated as a medical problem to be fixed.

Many interviews and 6 months later, I covered science and medicine's changing attitudes toward asexuality it in a feature article in Scientific American's January 2024 issue! I'm so grateful to everyone who lent their expertise to the article 💜

"... Over the past two decades psychological studies have shown that asexuality should be classified not as a disorder but as a stable sexual orientation akin to homosexuality or heterosexuality. Both cultural awareness and clinical medicine have been slow to catch on. It's only recently that academic researchers have begun to look at asexuality not as an indicator of health problems but as a legitimate, underexplored way of being human."

#asexual #asexuality #lgbtq+ #sexuality #science #the magazine is sold at barnes & noble and hudson news and books a million #and I think also walmart? #if you want to check it out in print :) #kudos to marcos chin for the absolutely phenomenal illustrations

[marblerose-rue]

click for better quality!

fire alone can save our clan. bye! *sound of lps feet clacking away*

#my art #spottedleaf #bluestar #warrior cats #warriors #waca #wc #wc art #hi guys i hope someone gets the hasbro style signature bc if not. thats embarrassing on my behalf AJBDJKGBD #i did 4 hours of hw today that was not fun #OH YEAH i would like to open up lps style comms in the future so keep an eye on that #and i would also like to draw more wc characters #this is for all of the people who would make their own clans or play out canon scenes with lps #I STILL HAVE ALL OF MINE i love them so so so much and one day i wanna pay someone to customize an lps to look like my fursona #i follow a few folks that do customs on instagram and their work is so inspiring to me #BUT YEAH this is in the style of the official stickers+coloring books/activity books #my grandma would always get my sister and i the books or print off individual coloring sheets for us to color in so this was weirdly #nostalgic for me AHBDJFHBDLGHB

[nikswonderland]

#lovee these may print them out for my journal #space #moon #space aesthetic #astronomy #sky #photos #dark aesthetic #universe #aesthetic #aes #moodboard #dark academia #academia #chaotic academia #romanticism #art #book aesthetic #books #light academia #cozycore #warmcore

[harriertail]

WARRIOR CATS COLOURING PAGES A tribute to the old days of Deviantart Bases, this is a charity project of 14 colouring pages of the most iconic scenes in warriors. Can be downloaded and printed or coloured digitally as PSD or PNG files All proceeds go to Care for Gaza! Artists - Maeybat Bearflowerr Pigeonleap vvortexccordis harriertail kitraptor powderseas marsopps sootslash/exocynraku Needlepine AElOU grovebeast Marmosetpaw archiepelago

#THANK YOU ALL FOR STICKING WITH ME LMAOOOO #i cant wait to print htese out when i get my printer GGRRR #warrior cats #warrior cats base #colouring book #colouring pages #coloring pages #but consider getting them and donating to support a good cause!!!

[walks-the-ages]

[ID: a cropped screenshot of an ebay listing for a copy of the Quantum Leap Novel Mirror's Edge published in 2000, for sale 'buy now' for $79.90 + $7.99 shipping. end ID]

Oh Quantum Leap fandom......... have you looked at the updated Re-Masterpost from @quantum-leap-writing-promptspts lately, of the Quantum Leap novels on the internet archive recently?

If not..... check it out ;)

And check out this link.....

Oh, and not only is it a PDF, and an EPUB, and a MOBI, and an AZW3.... it's also an audiobook made with text to speech, so you can listen to it as well!

#ql #Quantum Leap #Quantum Leap novels #Mirror's edge #Archive.org #Internet Archive #out of print books #media preservation #book preservation #accessibility

[veryluckyclovers]

I have an autumn/halloween free printable coloring zine on my gumroad!^_^

here’s the link 🎃

tips are appreciated for support but I would love to see what you color either digitized or traditionally :,,,,)

#free coloring book #coloring zine #zine print out #cute art #silly art #halloween #autumn #spooky art #doodle #drawing #art

[crowned-peony]

I like to think that we all be at nursing homes still talking about fictional dick

#book club is just sharing printed out fics #telling the nurses and aids about different aus

[fashionbooksmilano]

assume vivid astro focus

Eli Sudbrack

Rizzoli, New York 2011, 176 pages, 24 x 32 cm,  Hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN  978-0-8478-3305-4,  Out of Print at the Publisher

euro 35,00

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The first book on the artist collective known for their raucous multimedia installations. Founded by artist Eli Sudbrack, assume vivid astro focus has been dazzling the art world since 1994 with its exuberant, visually spectacular room-size installations.

Created out of recycled and appropriated imagery from a wide range of sources--such as unicorn tapestries, children's stickers, pages from gay porn magazines, album covers, Buddhist thangka paintings, and street graffiti, to name a few--the finished works can feel like a cross between a '70s disco, Brazilian Carnival, and a psychedelic version of Andy Warhol's Factory.

This volume, their first, will include many of the elements featured in their installations, which are known for the many "give-aways" the artists provide the visitors: a blow-in poster, postcard and sticker pages, and a pop-up, all designed by avaf.

07/01/23

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#asaf #Eli Sudbrack #assume vivid astro focus #artist collective #multimedia installations #room size installations #give-aways #blow-in posters #postcards #sticker pages #pop-ups #designbooksmilano #fashionbooksmilano #out of print books

[canisalbus]

as a 16th century clergyman what does machete think of the printing press

I think by the time he was born the printing press had been around for almost a century and a half, so I'd reckon the society as a whole was largely past it's initial novelty and controversy. Machete himself is bookish and nerdy, he's very invested in gathering knowledge about various topics and trying to piece together a good picture of how the world works. Getting access to reading material would be a lot harder if every book was still copied individually by hand. His standards are pretty high though, there's a lot of poorly translated, shoddily printed and flimsily bound books around and he's prone to scrunching his nose at them.

#his relationship with faith is kind of fraught and unhealthy #but as a top ranking cleric he's nonetheless fiercely protective of the church's interests that's his job #the reformation and the invention of the printing press enabled people to start spreading bootleg vernacular translations of the bible #suddenly folks had a chance to read the holy book in a language they could understand (if you were lucky enough to be literate at least) #this was a big deal remember it used to be only in latin and essentially gatekept by priests #not to mention you could now buy a copy of your own the cost of books had crashed they weren't necessarily rare luxury items anymore #you don't just go and cut out the middleman that's not how this is supposed to work #distressing times in the catholic church #answered #anonymous