Well, what do you know. Since I first became entranced by H. T. Tsiang a year and a half ago, procuring Kaya Press's Books' 2013 edition of his 1935 Hanging on Union Square (which reworked the original work's provocative design; the back cover was filled with the single word SO), he's made the big time. Hanging in Union Square has been published, and as a Penguin Classic, no less! A copy is speeding my way... but I'm
already anxious at how it will feel to see his strange words in that familiar typeface and format, on pages with that familiar texture and smell. What I really want to know: does Penguin (as Kaya didn't) include the several pages of publishers' rejections with which Tsiang prefaced his self-published opus? It's not that Tsiang didn't want to be published. And this authoritative appearance has generated at least one really insightful - if deferential - review!