Author: Nelson Algren

Cited by

• Marcus Sakey (1)
  • IN: At The City's Edge (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mountain grog seller and river gambler, Generous Sport and border jackal, blackleg braggart and coonskin roisterer, Long Knives from Kentucky and hatchet-men from New York, bondsmen, brokers, and bounty jumpers – right from the go it was a broker's town, and the brokers run it yet.
    FROM: Chicago: City on the Make, (1951), Essay, US
• Sebastian Rotella (1)
  • IN: Triple Crossing (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Till the finger of guilt, pointing so sternly for so long across the query-room blotter, had grown bored with it all at last and turned, capriciously, to touch the fibers of the dark gray muscle behind the captain's light gray eyes. So that though by daylight he remained the pursuer there had come nights, this windless first week of December, when he had dreamed he was being pursued.
    FROM: The Man With the Golden Arm, (1949), Novel, US