Editing Nelson Algren (section)

===In music===
*[[Leonard Cohen]] used images from ''[[The Man with the Golden Arm (novel)|The Man with the Golden Arm]]'' in "The Stranger Song", from his first album, ''[[Songs of Leonard Cohen]]'' (1967): "you've seen that man before: his golden arm dispatching cards, but now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger."
*In the documentary ''Classic Albums: Lou Reed: Transformer'', musician [[Lou Reed]] says that Algren's 1956 novel, ''[[A Walk on the Wild Side]]'', was the launching point for his [[Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song)|similarly-titled 1972 song]].
*According to the liner notes of The Tubes' second album, ''[[Young and Rich]]'' (1976), ''A Walk on the Wild Side''  is the inspiration for their song "Pimp".
* [[The Verve]] has a song called "[[Neon Wilderness]]" on their 1997 album ''[[Urban Hymns]]''.
*The Minnesota-based punk-rock band [[Dillinger Four]] quote Algren as an inspiration in the song "Doublewhiskeycokenoice" from their 1998 album ''[[Midwestern Songs of the Americas]]''. In that song Patrick Costello sings "Nelson Algren came to me and said, 'Celebrate the ugly things' / The beat-up side of what they call pride could be the measure of these days."
*The 2002 album ''Adult World'' by guitarist [[Wayne Kramer]] (founding member of the Detroit band [[MC5]]) contains a song titled "Nelson Algren Stopped By," in which guest band X-Mars-X provides a shuffling jazz background while Kramer reads a prose poem about walking the streets of present-day Chicago with Algren.
*In 2005, [[The Hold Steady]] mentioned Algren in the song "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" from the ''[[Separation Sunday]]'' album. The first line of the song is "Nelson Algren came to Paddy at some party at the Dead End Alley/He told him what to celebrate" and toward the end the song goes "Hey Nelson Algren. Chicago seemed tired last night/They had cigarettes where there were supposed to be eyes." The name 'Paddy' in the song is a reference to Patrick Costello and the 'Dead End Alley' is the name of the house where the [[Dillinger Four]]'s members used to live.
*[[The Devil Wears Prada (band)|The Devil Wears Prada]] on their 2019 album'' [[The Act (album)|The Act]]'' has the song "Please Say No" which is based on the novel ''Never Come Morning''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metalinjection.net/av/new-music/the-devil-wears-prada-slows-down-on-new-song-please-say-no|title = THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Slows Down on New Song "Please Say No"|date = September 14, 2019}}</ref>