Jerry Kamstra
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| - | '''Nelson Algren''' ([[March 28]], [[1909]] - [[May 9]], [[1981]]) was an [[American writer]] best-known for ''[[The Man with the Golden Arm]]''. Algren had a [[torrid]] [[affair]] with [[Simone de Beauvoir]] and they travelled to [[Latin America]] together in [[1949]]. In her novel ''[[The Mandarins]]'' ([[1957]]), she wrote of Algren (who is "Lewis Brogan" in the book): | + | In the 1957 [[Jerry Kamstra]] book ''[[The Frisco Kid (novel)|The Frisco Kid]]'', Jerry's mentally challenged friend Scott pulls him aside and forces Jerry to promise to him that he will read [[Nelson Algren]] because "he is the one American author that hasn't [[selling out|sold out]] yet, kid." |
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| - | "At first I found it amusing meeting in the flesh that classic American species: self-made leftist writer. Now, I began taking an interest in Brogan. Through his stories, you got the feeling that he claimed no rights to life and that nevertheless he had always had a passionate desire to live. I liked that mixture of modesty and eagerness." | + | |
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| - | == Bibliography == | + | |
| - | *''Somebody in Boots'' (1935) | + | |
| - | *''Never Come Morning'' (1942) | + | |
| - | *''The Neon Wilderness'' (1947), a collection of short stories | + | |
| - | *''[[The Man with the Golden Arm (novel)|The Man with the Golden Arm]]'' (1949), concerns morphine addiction | + | |
| - | *''[[Chicago: City on the Make]]'' (1951) | + | |
| - | *''[[Walk on the Wild Side (story)|A Walk on the Wild Side]]'' (1956) | + | |
| - | *''Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters'' (1962) | + | |
| - | *''Who Lost an American?'' (1963) | + | |
| - | *''Conversations with Nelson Algren'' (1964) | + | |
| - | *''Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way'' (1965) | + | |
| - | *''The Last Carousel'' (1973) | + | |
| - | *''The Devil's Stocking'' (1983) | + | |
| - | *''America Eats'' (1992) | + | |
| - | *''He Swung and He Missed'' (1993) | + | |
| - | *''Nonconformity'' (1994) | + | |
| - | *''The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren'' (1994) | + | |
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| - | ==References in popular culture== | + | |
| - | *[[Ernest Hemingway]], in his 8 July 1942 letter to Maxwell Perkins, said of "Never Come Morning": "I think it very, very good. It is as fine and good stuff to come our of Chicago...." | + | |
| - | *In the 1957 [[Jerry Kamstra]] book ''[[The Frisco Kid (novel)|The Frisco Kid]]'', Jerry's mentally challenged friend Scott pulls him aside and forces Jerry to promise to him that he will read Nelson Algren because "he is the one American author that hasn't sold out yet, kid." | + | |
| - | *In his [[1967 in literature|1967]] novella, ''[[Trout Fishing in America]]'', [[Richard Brautigan]] writes about crating up and mailing a crippled wino (Trout Fishing in America Shorty) to Nelson Algren. | + | |
| - | *[[Leonard Cohen]] used images from ''[[The Man with the Golden Arm]]'' in "The Stranger Song," from his first album, ''[[Songs of Leonard Cohen]]'' (1967): "you've seen that man before: his golden arm dispatching cards, but now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger". | + | |
| - | *In the documentary ''Classic Albums: Lou Reed: Transformer'', musician [[Lou Reed]] says that Algren's [[1956 in literature|1956]] novel, ''[[Walk on the Wild Side (story)|A Walk on the Wild Side]]'', was the launching point for his [[Walk on the Wild Side (Reed)|song of the same name]]. | + | |
| - | *The 2002 album ''Adult World'' by guitarist [[Wayne Kramer]] (founding member of the Detroit band [[MC5]]) contains a song entitled ''Nelson Algren Stopped By'', in which guest band X-Mars-X provides a shuffling jazz background while Kramer reads a prose poem about walking the streets of present-day Chicago with Algren. | + | |
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