Heartbreaking how such genius can be so neglected. Partly the
curse of the bleak, no doubt. Amazingly, Wolfson's in print
in Germany. Hell of a cover. Wonder what the literary vandal
of 1948 would have to say about it. http://www.pulpmaster.de/z/16.shtml
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Vorzimmer" <
jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Bodies
are Dust (Writers who have "disappeared")
> Tonight I went to pick up P. J. Wolfson's Bodies are
Dust at the library
> and
> when I opened the book, I noticed that someone had
scrawled on the title
> page, "Very vicious--should not be in library." I
laughed out loud. I
> flipped back to the fly page where the due dates are
stamped and saw that
> the book had been checked out many times in the
1930s and 40s, but then I
> saw that the due date of the previous borrower,
stamped just above mine,
> was
> March 27, 1948. No one had borrowed the book in over
sixty years!
>
> Talk about your forgotten, neglected writers who
have faded into
> obscurity.
>
> Jeff
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