SOURCE: An introduction to The Neon Wilderness, Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1986, pp. 7-11.
In the following introduction to the 1986 edition of The Neon Wilderness, Carson calls the collection "the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career" and comments on Algren's writing style and the relationship between his short stories and his novels.
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