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How the ghost and the words of Chicago writer Nelson Algren are being kept alive
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNelson Algren will not go away. Though he moved from Chicago in 1975 and died in 1981, he has managed to remain a frequent visitor, in the form of his famous novels, of course, but also in other ...
Christopher Hampton Circling Simone De Beauvoir-Nelson Algren Affair Drama With Anne Fontaine; Talks...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is in talks to write a screenplay with French director Anne...
An afternoon with Nelson Algren and some seniors as part of CPD’s ‘Chicago in Film’ series
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWednesday afternoon, in a small room inside the Chicago Police Department 24th District, a couple dozen people, free popcorn and water in hand, sat through an old movie about a guy dealing with ...
Appreciation: Russell Banks was a giant rooting for the underdogs
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRussell Banks, who has died at age 82, carried on the legacy of great American novelists probing big themes through the small lives of heroic underdogs.
My Rendezvous with the Forgotten Heroines of Paris
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoExclusive: A Rendezvous with My Paris Heroines© Lee Miller Archives, England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk During my first extended stay...
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame to honor Tribune’s Rick Kogan with Fuller Award
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, a Chicago nonprofit dedicated to recognizing hometown literature, writers and the written word, will present Chicago Tribune writer Rick Kogan with a Fuller ...
Are there any secrets left in Chicago? Author Lauren Viera says there are 500 of them
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCHICAGO — Knowing that the world’s secrets are as close as your phone or computer keyboard — “Alexa,...
Remembering Jay Robert Nash, a prolific writer with a huge personality
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTo write a few words in remembrance of Jay Robert Nash seems insufficient, for this was a man for...
Michael Phillips: In ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ composer Adam Guettel took on the challenge of putting...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDoes addiction have a sound? Popular culture and several of the world’s greatest jazz musicians,...
Column: Is it possible to recapture the manic magic of Maxwell Street? The market returns to its...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe first time I went “shopping” on Maxwell Street was in the mid-1960s when I ventured there with some little friends in an attempt to retrieve the bike that had been stolen from one of us ...