Brooklyn Book Launch: ‘Never A Lovely So Real’

Nelson Algren is always associated with Chicago, where he grew up and where many of his books are set, including Never Come Morning and The Man With the Golden Arm, as well as The Neon Wilderness and Chicago: City On the Make. But the official launch of Colin Asher’s Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren will take place in Brooklyn at the Community Bookstore, not far from where Asher lives. Does everything happen these days in Brooklyn?

**Colin Asher will speak about his new biography of Nelson Algren and sign copies.**

Next week he will discuss the biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan,
where everything used to happen.

Russell Banks (bottom right) is best known for the award-winning novels *Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, the Sweet Hereafter,* and *Affliction.* Dan Simon (top right) is the founder of Seven Stories Press, which has published the critical edition of Algren’s *The Man with the Golden Arm* and other Algren works, including *Nonconformity: Writing on Writing.*

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