Memos from Purgatory Author:Harlan Ellison Hemingway said, ?A man should never write what he doesn?t know.? In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison?kicked out of college and hungry to write?went to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades, and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a p... more »hony name, moved into Brooklyn?s dangerous Red Hook section, and managed to con his way into a ?bopping club.? What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas. This autobiography is a book whose message you will not be able to ignore or forget.« less