| #207121 in Books | 1996-09-10 | 1996-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.53 x.62 x5.86l,.61 | File Name: 1888363053 | 142 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Novelist's Treasure Trove|By Edward Nagel|This a novelist's book and says that the state of mind of a serious novelist as Nelson Algren was, is the same as a bank robber planning and executing a heist. Same message as John Gardner in On Being a Novelist and The Art of Fiction:, that no matter how calm a novelist looks under the surface he is obsessed and driven to get the st|.com |During the McCarthy era, writer Nelson Algren was fingered as a Communist. The author of hugely successful novels including The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side, Algren lost a contract with his publisher, Doubleday, for a book of essay
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers. "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."<...
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