"Unlike most of the U.S. left, Nelson Algren wasn't afraid to embrace the tragic sense of life, something the American South marinates in, and which finds its highest expression in the blues tradition as well as classic C&W such as Hank Williams. He scorned those who had 'pink pills for social ills' (that could have been a line in a hip-hop track!), which explained why he was of the left without being in it."
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