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Open book Fink, Janice, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1943-1950

Title Fink, Janice, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1943-1950

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1943-1950

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 4.
It looked like the old vaudeville stunt.

I was particularly interested in the account of the East St. Louis visits in your own book. I saw a good deal of that district at one time. Adah Isaacs Mencken is always fascinating, isn't she? I never had a professor yet that did not lecture on the gal with zest.
Social writers I have found in general to be fascinatingly contradictory. There was Algren, of course (Let's omit him.) But Mosley according to O'Leary did not like his own race. He preferred the company of white people always. And even with them he was pretty tough. The Chicago section of Wrights' work (did you read the chapter in [[underlined: Mademoiselle?) is approaching a regular debacle of self-pity. He takes everything that happens to him with such utter seriousness. I wish he had more of a sense of humor because the difficulty that is looming up crossed out: with him is that many white people too undergo the humiliations in the north that he describes. And some of the insults he records one can see so easily go back to the general

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 10 Folder 479

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 3310px × 4911px 46.54 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00010_fl_00479_000018.tif

Unique Identifier NL11A57M

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