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Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
Language: en
Pages: 645
Authors: Colin Asher
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-16 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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“Easily the best biography of the great Nelson Algren, and an extraordinary book in its own right.” —Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A Life For a time, N
A Walk on the Wild Side
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Nelson Algren
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-06-24 - Publisher: Macmillan

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With its depiction of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, "A Walk on the Wi
Never a City So Real
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Alex Kotlowitz
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07-06 - Publisher: Crown

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The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city’s most interesting, if not always
Chicago
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Nelson Algren
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher:

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Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, fille
The Devil's Stocking
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Nelson Algren
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-26 - Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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The Devil’s Stocking is the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists, and bar girls. Chron