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Hearts,” marked in Algren’s hand, “Early version of ‘Man with the Golden Arm’—Algren” is also in the Nelson Algren archives, Ohio State University.
IV. ENTRAPMENT (1951–1953)
    “Watch Out for Daddy.” Short story. Originally identified as a fragment from
Entrapment
. The middle section first appeared as a short story in
Playboy
, April 1957, as“All through the Night.” First complete publication in
The Last Carousel
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons), 1973. Currently available in paperback (New York: Seven Stories Press), 1997.
    “Entrapment.” Unpublished novel fragment. Nelson Algren archives, Ohio State University.
V. AND ALL THE REST (1957–1981)
    “G-String Gomorrah.” Reportage first published in
Esquire
(August 1957): 47–48.
    “Ain’t Nobody On My Side?” Reportage first published in
The Race for Space!
Ed. Paul G. Neimark. Chicago: Camerarts, 1957. 13.
    “Stoopers and Shoeboard Watchers.” Reportage first published in
Sports Illustrated
15 (June 1959): E12–E16.
    “Afternoon in the Land of the Strange Light Sleep.” Story first published in
Cavalier
12 (September 1962): 24–25, 27.
    “Nobody Knows Where Charlie’s Gone.” Unpublished reportage fragment in the Nelson Algren archives, Ohio State University.
    “Down with Cops.” Essay first published in
Saturday Evening Post
23 (October 1965): 10, 14.
    “The Emblems and the Proofs of Power.” Essay first published in
The Critic
25 (February–March 1967): front cover, 20–25.
    “On Kreativ Righting.” Essay first published in
The New York Times
29 (March 1975): 23
    “Topless in Gaza.” Reportage first published in
New York
30 (October 1978): 88–90.
    “ ‘We Never Made It to the White Sox Game.’ ” Essay first published in
The Chicago Tribune Book World
2 (September 1979): 1.
    “No More Whorehouses.” Unpublished completed reportage from typescript in the Nelson Algren archives, Ohio State University.
    “There Will Be No More Christmases.”
Chicago
(July 1980): 132–34. One of the last two stories Algren wrote and published in his lifetime.
    “Walk Pretty All the Way.”
Chicago
(June 1981): 160–64. The other of the last two stories Algren wrote and published in his lifetime.
    “So Long, Swede Risberg.” Essay first published in
Chicago
July 1981: 138–41, 158, two months after Algren’s death on May 9, 1981.
INTERVIEW
    Perlongo, Robert A. “Interview with Nelson Algren.”
Chicago Review
11 (1957): 92–98.

I.
Out of the Great Depression, Into the War
    (1934–1941)
    “F orgive Them, Lord,” the first uncollected story gathered here, appeared in 1934; it is the second story Algren published. 1 It tells of a black World War I veteran who witnesses three white men gun down a black man and his daughter.
    The next three brief pieces date from 1935. “A Lumpen” sketches an unnamed drifter who emerges from a Chicago mission in time to be disgusted by blacks and whites marching together in a solitary parade. “Within the City” and “American Obituary” are vignettes, the former of Chicago, where “every man seems to go alone,” the latter of one of the decade’s homeless, slugged and dumped into the river “for ninety cents.”
    “The Lightless Room,” written “about 1939,” according to a note in Algren’s hand on the manuscript, sees daylight here for the first time, having never been published before in any form. Inspired by a news clipping, the story concerns small-time boxer Blackie Cavanaugh—a man who “didn’t care, one way or another, whether he lived or died.” Blackie is recalled by his girlfriend, mother, father, and manager, before stepping out of the darkness to speak for himself. Why this story was never published—Algren’s collection
The Neon Wilderness
would have been its natural home—is difficult to explain.
    Algren’s most famous poem, “Epitaph:
The Man with the Golden Arm
,” first appeared in 1947 in
Poetry
—and two years later he chose the poem to close