Nonconformity by Nelson Algren

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/161021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nonconformity Author: Nelson Algren Narrator: Richard Poe Format: mp3 Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins Release date: 10-01-19 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings Genres: Aesthetics Publisher's Summary: “You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich”, writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society....