It’s never to late to discover Nelson Algren’s “Ballet for Opening Day”
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Nelson Algren Birthday Party
Nelson Algren birthday celebration at Saint Paul’s Cultural Center
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Gossip Wolf: Does That Dog Have an Agent Yet?
Vice Cooler survives a Texas humping, Billy Corgan buys his way into Art Shay’s portfolio, and more.
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Help Fund a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
The Chicago Writers Association hosts Deck the Hall, a benefit for the proposed Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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Aleksandar Hemon & Audrey Niffenegger on Chicago, 9/14, and more Granta events
The authors of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Love and Obstacles discuss “how artists and writers from around the world represent Chicago in their work” tonight at the Chicago Cultural Center. It’s just the beginning of Granta‘s Chicago issue festivities: Alex Kotlowitz, Maria Venegas, and Stuart Dybek read Thursday at Harold Washington Library; and photographer […]
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When Nelson Algren Met Simone de Beauvoir . . .
An account from Carole Seymour-Jones’s new biography of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, A Dangerous Liaison (Overlook, due September 10), about Algren and de Beauvoir’s first meeting in Chicago: “[Mary] Guggenheim sent Algren a note warning him that the French novelist was on her way. The acclaimed author of Never Come Morning was not […]
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Nelson Algren
Remembering a conversation between Nelson Algren and the sap who bought his poker table.
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Nelson Algren documentary preview
Michael Caplan previews footage of his Nelson Algren documentary for free Tuesday at Harold Washington Library.
