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The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers.<br>"You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery."<br>Nonconformity is about
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- Author
- Algren, Nelson; Simon, Daniel; O'Brien, C.S.
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299576476
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Literary Collections, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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