The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-29
CHANGE
THE
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By Michael Gold

So By Michael Gold -
"a Letter To the Author of a First Book
DEAR Friend and Conrade Jack:
to write my report
the graveyard Nation New Republic boospetz but soon
found couldn't keep in that VEIN
How can pretend to truth"
deeply partial and work9
li u u G if is igniscnt class pntent II victory
capitalism despair mindessness and violence of the
thinkers leaders arise Each time one appears it is
revolutionary miracle shall grow sophisticated enough to
witness with anything but Joy,
that have written and published novel at
9 myself went to work at the age Of H. and think
create ones literary tools and ones own
courage something understand sometimes
not when their academy calls itself a When Negroes Iarta
Bash graduates Of steel
yourself write novels and something great has
huts of a wilderness
Proletaran literature beginnings
inevitable crudy first
roughewn shelters relation shining cities Of
revolutionary writer's arising the
the of the tired socademo
something that critics ought to
your Of
skimsh in the battle
The first scouts new terrain can do little more than hued map
main does not expect them be serene landscape
painters of the under
the young proetarn author writing nst report OF strange me-
unprecedented facts and he involved
that sometimes he cannot piece them together satisfactory
which pqedomnaes book
which is dominant proetarian form today
Many FauEts-and Virtues
TOR noteworthy your
proeaans 1t autobiographc,
s srooronhers If vort the nschocs resIr oe esanes
young problem of fiction,
the creation un-blooded
completed.
by parallel: many
First World War book after another
apparent that those authors who choned only the objective facts
horror and violence had written monotonouy Horror not
Facts There must living human
through mind all reflected
TO him that other human beings can poignanly feel
Proeaan life is The hero of novel, Larry Donovan
a brothers
his father His mother becomes heroic drudge who bears
talent the portrait of this universal mother proaan stole
Of her low are
THE boy camp ambitious him.
with the pathetic poison
America whte-conar
industrial helhole factory
where dust rots the months
He through mills
millions OF migrator who are characteristic OF American industry
There is no for him. than for the other millions
The boy drife failures
hopeless men who are called by patriots the American people Some
significance brought into all this chaos when Larry
broken by temporary
yogster the end the participate
Jack as well as Hemingway knows the ATMOSPHERE Of n Paris bs
You have picture oamining which
have never before smell rubber MILL
bored madness the roOming- houses
What Held You Back?
VIOLENT gray breaking monny these are the main
elements of and of proletaran life given
jack but why could communicate
the Irish blood
fear of the autopsy that might pseudo
scientific Marxan Don't Them
men OF passion and wisdom and knew that life first
politics and then the of the bourgeois
clcs? destroyed
made us ashamed of being proeaan
hate propaganda and they
What orky called THE of
of suicide a proIetaran
really believe that faithful would help
prolan writer's aong
tougeo esthetes like Joseph Wood been
aid by unmagnye outneers often
repeent Nevertheless 1t happens to be
defect in novel which might
To capture of that
finds even in the darkest
main road leading carac
ynca enooh
isn't fuse true and breathing
portrait and yet that chief hcona
structure of society is found can help the
writer attain the fusion I have described.
YOUR book reminds the
MS stalwart familiarity with the
his ear for the natural idiom speech dynamic
rebellion ana red-bloodd poetry
ehng ior powerful dramatic form And believe
always his chief fault the that destroyed sub
Conscious sense OF inferiorty to the
is trait
ducaon You over-value the decayed
o SUNK IN hopeless and mindless poverty enough to spout
n nightmare rubber MILL tnkng onyentiona
or poet named Arthur Fke
s Iae note that is repeated
gay OF JACK London the aoune" by believing that
mouth lew lush stan by Swinurne
i press hands and factory snobbshness usually ends as