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154: 56:'s then-ongoing investigation of Algren, Doubleday rejected it in September. Algren then sent it to his agent, but the manuscript was either lost in the mail or intercepted by the FBI, and the text salvaged from a carbon copy. In 1956, Algren gave those carbons to Van Allen Bradley, the 67: 191: 86: 235: 230: 36:
called it, "A handbook for tough, truth-telling outsiders who are proud, as was Algren, to damn well stay that way."
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The bulk, written between 1951 and 1953, presents Algren's philosophy as a writer, especially in the context of
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Excerpts were published as "Things of the Earth: A Groundhog View" (in
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This article about a biographical book on writers or poets is a
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editor who had commissioned the essay that inspired the book.
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Added to the original essay is a memoir on the making of
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Nelson Algren
Seven Stories Press
Kurt Vonnegut
McCarthyism
Doubleday
FBI
Chicago Daily News
The California Quarterly
Chicago Daily News
the 1955 film version
The Man with the Golden Arm





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