Tag: Proletarian
Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian Literature
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In the 1930s, the United States produced a too-brief proletarian literary movement and at the center of it was Jack Conroy.
In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.
Jack Conroy
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Richard Wright called him the “old daddy of rebel writing,” but Jack Conroy was most often known by the nickname “the Sage of Moberly.” A wise man out in the
The Glorious Proletarian Theater of Pro Wrestling
An ode to one of the greatest working-class art forms of our time.
Bayley fights IYO SKY for the WWE Women’s Championship during Night Two at Lincoln Financial Field on April 7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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It was just after 3 am on a Saturday night in South Philadelphia, and I was watching an angry inflatable chicken fight a Japanese otter mascot in the middle of a hastily assembled wrestling ring. Around me,