Algren, Nelson

interview in Writers at Work


• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, p...
• I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that...
preface added to his prose-poem Chicago: City on the Make


• The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar respo...
“Prefatory”


• The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as ...
quoted in Newsweek (New York, July 2, 1956)


• Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman ...
quoted in The Neon Wilderness


• Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in...
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