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Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

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Title Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1946-1959

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Dear Jack - I have only now managed to [corral?] some writing material, as I would have written sooner to thank you for the book of short stories, "Cross-Section." I enjoyed it very much, particularly "[Zaunchi?] the Chicken" by Eli Waldrow, and Richard Wright's "Early Days in Chicago." Many of the stories, I noticed," are written in the truncated, headless-and-legless style made popular, almost mandatory, by the New Yorker. As for the poems, the preface says they are [obscurantist?], and I am ready to go along with that.As always, reading any contemporary writing always fires me with a desire to try my hand at it once again. I am bursting into the things I want to say, but my prose always comes out bearing an eerie resemblance to that of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 129

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2416px × 3850px 53.26 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00129_000020.tif

Unique Identifier NL119YAR

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