This collection of Nelson Algren’s travel writings documents his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s.Note
“This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. . . . Mr. Algren, boy, you are good.”—Ernest Hemingway“Algren is an artist whose s
The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book A
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginatio
The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and include
