Along with other Arts and Crafts proselytizers like Gustav Stickley, Price sought to convince Americans that they didn t need to keep up with the Joneses . He admonished both rich and poor to & dispense with the plush albums and tea-store chromos and self-playing melodeons and comic operas and the daily installment of wood-pulp which calls itself the modern newspaper.
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Alfau wrote two novels in English : " Locos : A Comedy of Gestures " and " Chromos . " " Locos " & mdash; a Steven Moore, then an editor for the small publisher Dalkey Archive Press found the book at a barn sale in Massachusetts, read it, and contacted Alfau after a friend had found his telephone number in the Manhattan phone book.
