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This isnt to chastise my editor—Im grateful they saw fit to give me any words at all! Its long been notoriously difficult to find review space for reissues.and the writer Christopher Shrimpton have all termed it—is just further evidence of the enduring appeal of her work.

Faber has recently released new editions of Brigid Brophys The Snow Ball (1964) and Beryl Gilroys groundbreaking memoir Black Teacher (1976) with just as much fanfare as the publisher affords any of its living authors.which was simultaneously rediscovered by the literary agent Becky Brown and is now being brought back into print next year.Tantalizing tidbits were scattered both in the various introductions that had been written by her admirers and friends over the years and in the novels themselves.

was equally impressed: Let us make no bones about it: Barbara Comyns is one of our most original talents.She seemed to me like an author forever poised on the cusp of definitive rediscovery—whatever that even means—someone who never quite reached escape velocity.

the story of Comynss ongoing success also has things to tell us about the growing visibility of rediscovered classics and neglected books.

That Observer review I wrote in 2013 afforded me a mere four hundred words to write about all three novels.why not subscribe to both The Paris Review and The New York Review of Books and read both magazines entire archives?Hilton Als.

youll receive yearlong subscriptions and complete archive access to both magazines—a 34% savings!To celebrate.Yet Audens somewhat patronizing précis of the virtues of Richs debut volume captures some of the cultural assumptions that initially shaped her.

You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter.155 (Summer 2000)You could say he spread himself too thin      a plasterer’stermyou could say he was thenskating thin ice      his stake in white colonnades against thethinness ofice itself     a slickened groundCould say he did not then lovehis art enough to love anything moreCould say he wanted the commission sobadly betrayed those who hired him      an artistwho in dreams followedthe crowds who followed him‘Inventing New Ways to BeBy Mark FordThe New York Review of Books.