Word: algren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here we have our Literary City, birthplace and/or alma mater to Willa Cather, Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, B. Traven, Algren, Bellow. Who gets to hang the tag on it? Carl Sandburg...
...schoolteachers, Sayles grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Schenectady, N.Y. His earliest literary influences were Jack London stories, episodes of The Untouchables on TV and the Gospels at Sunday Mass. But it was the gritty realism of Nelson Algren's hobo novel, Somebody in Boots, that first gave Sayles the idea of becoming a professional writer. "Algren wrote from neck-deep in the trash of American culture, the only place I was ever likely to be," he says. After graduating from Williams College, Sayles supported himself with a series of odd jobs, ranging from nursing-home attendant...
Seth Morgan began writing this first novel during a prison term for armed robbery. The cuff marks show, and not just in detail that seems accurate. The novel is funny and fast moving, but its air stinks slightly of decay. As it should. A couple of Nelson Algren's low-life adventures come to mind, such as A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren was a better writer and a more lyrical artist, but Morgan is better acquainted with dead souls...