Skip to main content
Nelson Algren on Muck Rack

Nelson Algren

As seen in: The Economist, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, InsideHook, Far Out Magazine, Five Books, CINeol, Inkl
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Nelson

Contact Nelson, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

|
By Nelson Algren, Stephen King, Jay McInerney Verified, Colin MacInnes
| Inkl
About a year and a half ago, I was in a second-hand bookshop when I saw old paperbacks of For Whom The Bell Tolls and Venus In Furs and I thought, “Books with the same name as songs – Songbooks!” and my nerdy book-brain started thinking of other songs named after books – Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Absolute Beginners – and then of books named after songs: Bright Lights, Big City, Helter Skelter, Less Than Zero etc. The obsessive in me was hooked and I started reading those books.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Chicago: City on the Make

|
By Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Bill Savage, David Schmittgens
| press.uchicago.edu
Sixtieth Anniversary Edition “Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” 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.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

No Expectations 020: For You to Sing

|
By Nelson Algren
Thanks for being here. You can expect a fresh newsletter from No Expectations like this one straight to your email each Thursday at 9am cst / 10am est as well as a twice-monthly Taste Profile sometime in the future alongside the weekly blog. Subscribe, share, like the post on the Substack app, and tell a friend. I’m on vacation in Arizona until Sunday so this newsletter is the first mailbag edition of No Expectations.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 11 licensed articles (13 Total)