"I got a glimpse into the uses of a certain kind of criticism this past summer at a writers' conference – into how 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. I saw how it was possible to gain a chair of literature on no qualification other than persistence in nipping the heels of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck."
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Nelson Algren, "The Art of Fiction No. 11: Nelson Algren", Fall 1955 interview by Alston Anderson and , ', Winter 1955.
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