{"id":13138,"date":"2014-06-25T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:38:43","slug":"nelson-algren-on-the-american-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/06\/nelson-algren-on-the-american-writer.html","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Algren on “the American writer” . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Photo by Stephen Deutch, ca. 1962]<\/p><\/div>\u201cThe American writer as often as not is a middle-aged man with a wife and children, two or three books behind him, and eleven dollars in his pocket. He\u2019s up against a conglomerate that deals in millions. He will take what they offer.\u201d<\/em> \u2014\u2013 Nelson Algren,<\/strong> 1980<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

uh, before Amazon … \u201cThe American writer as often as not is a middle-aged man with a wife and children, two or three books behind him, and eleven dollars in his pocket. He\u2019s up against a conglomerate that deals in millions. He will take what they offer.\u201d \u2014\u2013 Nelson Algren, 1980<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ALGREN-BACK-PAGE-image-of-NA-e1429470091896.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3pU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}