"Nelson [Algren] felt even more isolated among his own generation of radicals because there were so few left. Richard Wright was dead, and no one had heard from Abe Aaron in more than twenty years. Jack Conroy, whom Nelson wasn't speaking to, had retired and returned to Moberly, Missouri, and everyone else had either joined him in obscurity or switched sides. John Dos Passos, one of the most important left-wing writers of the thirties, had become a conservative and a Richard Nixon supporter. John Steinbeck had recently traveled to Vietnam and sent back dispatches praising the war effort. Even Frank Meyer--the Communist Party functionary who scolded Nelson for lacking discipline in 1940--had become a contributor to the National Review and a close friend of William F. Buckley's."
~~ from Colin Asher's Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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Monday, June 24, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
"other writers can't help you with writing"
"Well, I dunno, I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing," [Nelson] Algren said. "I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live. He observes."
~~ from Colin Asher's Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
~~ from Colin Asher's Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
Monday, June 17, 2019
Hemingway on Algren
"OK, kid, you beat Dostoyevsky. I'll never fight you in Chicago. Ever."
According to Colin Asher's Never A Lovely So Real, Ernest Hemingway wrote the praise above inside his personal copy of The Man With the Golden Arm.
According to Colin Asher's Never A Lovely So Real, Ernest Hemingway wrote the praise above inside his personal copy of The Man With the Golden Arm.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Nelson Algren
The new Nelson Algren biography is a pleasure. . . lots of Richard Wright in there, Hem cameo, the 1930s in general. . . I just found it randomly at the library. Algren's wife just left. https://t.co/0mA0VLAW56 #20th #Century #American #Literature #Great #Depression— Alex Kudera (@kudera) June 10, 2019
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