"New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded."
✒️ #NelsonAlgren #BOTD 28 March 1909 #Literature
A penguin paperback of Nelson Algren's A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE on my desk
Catching up with the unread pile. I mean stack. Or wall? Walls. Hello walls. My first Algren, figure I should read it before watching the movie. 👀 #BookSky #NelsonAlgren
“Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”
✒️ #NelsonAlgren, American novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm), #DOTD 9 May 1981. #LIterature
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"New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded."
✒️ #NelsonAlgren #BOTD 28 March 1909 #Literature
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Valerie Solanas, Andy Warhol and The Factory is an entire dissertation on its own, y'all.
#walkonthewildside #loureed #laurieanderson #nelsonalgren
The US hardcover edition of The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949). #TheManWithTheGoldenArm #NelsonAlgren #1940s #book #books #hardback #hardcover #dustjacket #dustwrapper #drugnovel #drugsnovel #coverart #cover #artwork
When Chicago writer Mike Royko tried to get a street renamed near Wicker Park honor of his friend, author Nelson Algren, things did not go as expected.
Episode 518 - Renaming Chicago Places Part 3
https://tinyurl.com/2p84ty89
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