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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