The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
"Nelson Algren" was an United States/American writer. He may be best known for The Man with the Golden Arm (novel)/The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award and was adapted as a The Man with the Golden Arm/1955 film of the same name.
According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America." The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he was featured as the hero of her novel The Mandarins, set in Paris and Chicago.
He is considered "a bard of the down-and-outer", based on this book and his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as a play of the same name, produced on Broadway. Its fame increased with Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song)/song of the same title.[http://www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/2009/6/18/1950.html "1950"]. Harold Augenbraum and staff. 60 Years of Honoring Great American Books (book-a-day blog), June 18, 2009. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
Augenbraum was the executive director of the National Book Foundation, marking the 60-year anniversary of the National Book Award for Fiction, as resumed after the war. Algren won the first one.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Nelson Algren on Wikipedia.Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
Never play cards with any man named "Doc." Never eat at any place called "Mom's." And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy /yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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