But any media or commercial attention paid to an author can bring his or her entire backlist into circulation. The Unmaking of Elvis Presley . And some, like all of the reprinted Ernest Hemingway biographies or David Goodis' noir classic Dark Passage , simply fall in line with current trends. In some cases, it's important to make a book available because it exemplifies a certain style of writing or speaks to a certain period of history. But the best reason to bring a book into print is its quality, the fact that it's worth reading.
Great books make terrible secrets.