With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it ...

'This is a man writing and you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. . . . Mr. Algren, boy, you are good.'-Ernest Hemingway 'Algren is an artist whose sympathy is as large as Victor Hugo's, an artist who ranks . . . among our...