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Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

By Nelson Algren, Dan Simon (Editor), C. S. O'Brien (Editor)
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By Nelson Algren, Dan Simon (Editor), C. S. O'Brien (Editor)
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A newly designed credo of one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers, this extraordinary book-length essay takes as its subject the struggle to write with deep emotion, ultimately presenting Algren's philosophy as a writer and thinker.

"A handbook for tough, truth-telling outsiders who are proud, as was Algren, to damn well stay that way."-Kurt Vonnegut

Includes an afterword by Seven Stories Press publisher Dan Simon.

Nelson Algren's only longer work of nonfiction, this acclaimed 1953...

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ReferenceLiterary BiographyWritingAmerican Literary Biography20th Century American Authors - Literary BiographyWriting - General & MiscellaneousNovelists, American->20th century->Biography