Nelson Algren

Jul 23, 2023 | inkl.com | Nelson Algren |Stephen King |Jay McInerney |Colin MacInnes

About a year and a half ago, I was in a second-hand bookshop when I saw old paperbacks of For Whom The Bell Tolls and Venus In Furs and I thought, “Books with the same name as songs – Songbooks!” and my nerdy book-brain started thinking of other songs named after books – Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Absolute Beginners – and then of books named after songs: Bright Lights, Big City, Helter Skelter, Less Than Zero etc. The obsessive in me was hooked and I started reading those books.

Apr 20, 2023 | noexpectations.fyi | Nelson Algren

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