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jenny
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First book of the year: The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren.
I went into this as an enthusiastic Algren fan, and came out of it an enthusiastic fan of Algren’s best novel (The Man With the Golden Arm, which I read 15 years ago), and a more moderate fan of some of his short fiction.
Halfway through this bad boy and it is SO interesting and lovely and also very very unlovely.
Love reading stories from a time when "pizza" was unusual enough to require italics
"Beyond the last bivouac, the last sea-bell and the last bar, the ordinary Milwaukee Avenue moon of home shone like a memory for me of people whose peace had always been one more war to go."
- from Nelson Algren's introduction to The Neon Wildnerness, in this 1993 edition:
Also found THIS, which I forgot I had. A 1964 Time-Life edition of MOMENTO MORI with a Tomi Ungerer cover illustration 🥰