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Conversations with Nelson Algren

Name: Conversations with Nelson Algren
ISBN: 0226013839

In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his c

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“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”

— Nelson Algren, amazon.com

Tagged: sentimentality, Poetry, Feelings, emotions, Writing