NP but Nelson Algren

[rich]

I've come to be attracted to writers with a certain style, flair what
have you, something that stands out no matter the story, where or how
depressing the subject (well, forget about models and celebrities now
that I think of it)

I tried reading man with the golden arm and didn't stick with it for
some reason.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have read little of him mostly because I could not feel it as literature
> rather than the grittiest reportage.
> My failure based on believing too much in high modernism ---among other
> failures of reading and experiential
> Imagination.
>
> I want types of ambiguity just about always, it seems.
>
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> On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:09 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> Thanks for this, Mark.  I've never read him, always suspecting he'd be too
> depressing - something I simply can't handle.  But maybe I'll give him a
> try.  He's got a bio that Kerouac would envy.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markekohut
> Sent: Jan 7, 2013 1:06 PM
> To: pynchon -l
> Subject: NP but Nelson Algren
>
> In which P's first agent makes an appearance and the neglected writer who
> dealt with "preterites" in more realistic writing ( and experIence )we can
> believe. Nice piece.
>
>
> www.believermag.com/issues/201301#return1?read=article_asher
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