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The Neon Wilderness

by Nelson Algren ...

Narrated by Richard Poe, Richard Ferrone, Ramiz Monsef ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, “The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career—the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedeviled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary ... Read more

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As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, “The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career—the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedeviled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary
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Somebody in Boots

by Nelson Algren ...

Narrated by Ramiz Monsef ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren’s first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. A wonderful companion to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, this new edition of Somebody in Boots ... Read more

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Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren’s first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. A wonderful companion to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, this new edition of Somebody in Boots
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The Last Carousel

by Nelson Algren ...

Narrated by Richard Poe, Richard Ferrone, Ramiz Monsef, Nicol Zanzarella ...

Unabridged

19 hours 2 min

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 includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren’s beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren’s intensity ... Read more

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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 includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren’s beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren’s intensity
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The Devil’s Stocking

by Nelson Algren ...

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

A boxer finds himself the targeted victim of a vindictive group in the story of one man’s battle against injustice in the dark underworld of urban America.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. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life ... Read more

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A boxer finds himself the targeted victim of a vindictive group in the story of one man’s battle against injustice in the dark underworld of urban America.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. Chronicling a battle for truth and human dignity which gives way to a larger story of life
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Nonconformity

Writing on Writing

by Nelson Algren, Daniel Simon, C.S. O'Brien ...

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from ... Read more

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The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from
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Wilderness City

The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman

by Ted Clontz ...

Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the chronotope, or spacetime. ... Read more

$70.99 USD

The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and their often differing views of literature and culture that make up the U.S. are more generally found, using the theories and concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his concept of the chronotope, or spacetime.
... Read more
Never a Lovely So Real

The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

by Colin Asher ...

“Easily the best biography of the great Nelson Algren, and an extraordinary book in its own right.” —Blake Bailey, author of Cheever: A LifeFor a time, Nelson Algren was America’s most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. But at the height of his career, he abandoned fiction and fell into obscurity. Colin Asher’s sublime biography of Algren unravels the enigma ... Read more

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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 LifeFor a time, Nelson Algren was America’s most famous author, lauded by the likes of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway. But at the height of his career, he abandoned fiction and fell into obscurity. Colin Asher’s sublime biography of Algren unravels the enigma
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A Walk on the Wild Side

by Nelson Algren ...

Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

Unabridged

10 hours 42 min

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 imaginations of all the generations that have followed. “I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called ‘Walking the Wild Side ... Read more

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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 imaginations of all the generations that have followed. “I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called ‘Walking the Wild Side
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Submission

Erotica for Women

Edited by Alex Algren ...

Eyes blindfolded. Mouth gagged. Hands chained to the headboard. You’re on display, ready for him—ready to be used. And the only sound in the room is your own breathing...until you hear him close the door behind you. Let these tales give you inspiration for the next time you find yourself in a tight spot. This collection of stories featuring guys dominating their eager, submissive lovers is bound ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Eyes blindfolded. Mouth gagged. Hands chained to the headboard. You’re on display, ready for him—ready to be used. And the only sound in the room is your own breathing...until you hear him close the door behind you. Let these tales give you inspiration for the next time you find yourself in a tight spot. This collection of stories featuring guys dominating their eager, submissive lovers is bound
... Read more
Bare Assed

Kinky Spanking Stories

Edited by Alex Algren ...

Spanking is probably the most unconsidered model of balance. Though spanking is commonly seen as an act of submission, the spanked has the unasserted power to bring the spanker to their quivering knees. Each of these six stories, paints a picture of spanking that is drastically different from the rest. NT Morley’s “I’m Going to Grab Your Hair” gives us a play by play of what a man driven by lust ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Spanking is probably the most unconsidered model of balance. Though spanking is commonly seen as an act of submission, the spanked has the unasserted power to bring the spanker to their quivering knees. Each of these six stories, paints a picture of spanking that is drastically different from the rest. NT Morley’s “I’m Going to Grab Your Hair” gives us a play by play of what a man driven by lust
... Read more
Fairy Tale Sex

Out of This World Erotic Romance

Edited by Alex Algren ...

Flesh or fantasy? In Fairy Tale Sex, you can have BOTH! A baker wonders whether an intriguing sweet-toothed fairy is after sugar or something more tantalizing in “Devil’s Food Cake” by Shanna Germain.Mexican folk tales meet the story of the little magic girl in Anne Meadows’ “Matches” for a more romantic and hopeful twist on the original. Evan Mora’s Pinoccio is granted a transformation of a ... Read more

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Flesh or fantasy? In Fairy Tale Sex, you can have BOTH! A baker wonders whether an intriguing sweet-toothed fairy is after sugar or something more tantalizing in “Devil’s Food Cake” by Shanna Germain.Mexican folk tales meet the story of the little magic girl in Anne Meadows’ “Matches” for a more romantic and hopeful twist on the original. Evan Mora’s Pinoccio is granted a transformation of a
... Read more
Backdoor Pleasures

Anal Erotica

Edited by Alex Algren ...

“When I read a book of erotica,” says editor Alex Algren, “I'm not looking for romance and happily ever after. But I am looking for great writing and a searing hotness that gets you sweaty.” Here, Algren has curated a set of smart and sexy stories of anal eroticism celebrating every imaginable kind of Backdoor Pleasure. Algren and her top notch contributors explore the exquisite pleasures of toys, ... Read more

$3.99 USD

“When I read a book of erotica,” says editor Alex Algren, “I'm not looking for romance and happily ever after. But I am looking for great writing and a searing hotness that gets you sweaty.” Here, Algren has curated a set of smart and sexy stories of anal eroticism celebrating every imaginable kind of Backdoor Pleasure. Algren and her top notch contributors explore the exquisite pleasures of toys,
... Read more

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