The Dusty Bookcase

A brief addendum to last week's post on Basil King's 1912 novel The Street Called Straight .    Seven Basil King novels have made it...

The Street Called Straight By the author of The Inner Shrine [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1912 415 pages Olivia Guion seems a most dislik...

In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...

The Globe , 10 December 1923 Three men feature on the first page of the 1923 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the 'Globe 100'...

Abraham's Bosom Basil King New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918 54 pages A short story masquerading as a novella,  Abraham's Bosom ...

Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine  outsold eve...