Nelson Algren, the author of MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, was a no bull writer from a no bull city. First appearing in , CHICAGO: CITY ON THE MAKE, a prose-poetry essay about Algren's home town, was ignored or suppressed until a translation into French was made by Jean-Paul Sartre/5(50). 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," filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for everything from slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and Cited by: In an odd sort of way, Nelson Algren's Chicago: City On The Make (written in ) looks inward at Chicago in the s, while Jack Kerouac's On The Road () glances outward from New York at about the same period, with both books standing as visceral, anarchic statements about life in America during the button-down framework of the Eisenhower presidency/5.
He was working on "Chicago: City on the Make," a love letter to the city. It's just over pages long and hard to pigeonhole. Algren's latest biographer thinks of it as a guidebook. Nelson Algren () won the National Book Award in for The Man with the Golden Arm. His works include A Walk on the Wild Side, The Neon Wilderness, and Chicago: City on the Make, the last published by the University of Chicago Press. David Schmittgens teaches English at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago. Chicago: City on the Make is a book-length essay by Nelson Algren published in Initially greeted with scorn by critics and newspaper editors in the city of its gaze (The Chicago Daily News famously called it a "Case for Ra(n)t Control"), it is now widely regarded by scholars as a definitive prose portrait of the city of Chicago, although it has never rivaled the literary status of Carl.
In an odd sort of way, Nelson Algren's Chicago: City On The Make (written in ) looks inward at Chicago in the s, while Jack Kerouac's On The Road () glances outward from New York at about the same period, with both books standing as visceral, anarchic statements about life in America during the button-down framework of the Eisenhower presidency. Nelson Algren, the author of MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, was a no bull writer from a no bull city. First appearing in , CHICAGO: CITY ON THE MAKE, a prose-poetry essay about Algren's home town, was ignored or suppressed until a translation into French was made by Jean-Paul Sartre. Chicago: City on the Make () is a book-length essay by American writer Nelson Algren. In this "prose poem" or "lyrical essay", Algren satirizes years of Chicago history as a tangle of hustlers, gangsters, and corrupt politicians, but ultimately declares his love for the city. It remains one of Chicago's most popular local books.
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