Verity Bargate’s Wafer-Thin Sticks of Dynamite
Cover of the program from “An Evening for Verity Bargate” at the Soho Theatre, 1981. This is cross-posted from NeglectedBooks.com. Verity…
A Baker’s Dozen of Wafer-Thin Gems from Valancourt Books
Valancourt Books, based in Richmond, Virginia, may be the premiere reissue-focused publisher in the U.S. outside of New York City. Their…
Five Wafer-Thin Slices of England Going to Pieces
There have been plenty of novels about some cataclysmic disaster overwhelming England, but aside from J. G. Ballard's first three novels…
Ten Wafer-Thin Candidates for the #1937Club
Twice a year, book bloggers Karen Langley (Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings) and Simon Thomas (Stuck in a Book) sponsor a wonderful collaborative…
Ten Terrific Wafer-Thin Books from the German Library at Seagull Books
Seagull Books is a remarkable Kolkata-based publisher that has such a broad and diverse catalog of world literatures that it stretches…
February’s Neglected Wafer-Thin Books
I have steadily been reading neglected wafer-thin books since the start of this year's reading group, but I have been remiss…
Ten Wafer-Thin Looks at Death
One of the best-known of all wafer-thin books is also one of the greatest reflections on death in literature: The Death of…
Wafer-Thin Favorites from The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel is one of the most impressive book sites on the web, one I've followed and learned from for…
Top-Rated Wafer-Thin Novels from The Complete Review
Michael Orthofer's The Complete Review, "a selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books old and new," is an increasingly rare…
Ten Wafer-Thin Books Set on Trains
Something about traveling by train offers a perennial formula for good fiction. Strangers meet on trains, are forced into awkward, artificial…