When Nelson Algren died on May 9, 1981, he was near-broke, living in a ramshackle rental home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., and all alone. Not a fitting farewell for a writer Ernest Hemingway once rated second ...
CHICAGO — In the wake of his failure to grab an Oscar for playing Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper plans to return to the biopic business by portraying the Chicago writer Nelson Algren, ...
In the wake of his failure to grab an Oscar for playing Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper plans to return to the bio-pic business by portraying the Chicago writer Nelson Algren, focusing ...
“Never play cards with a guy named Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” Along with George Rogge, Sue Rutsen is a founding member of ...
The Nelson Algren Museum in Gary's Miller neighborhood is offering tours and planning an event with Algren biographer Colin Asher, who's turned up in his research much of Algren's massive FBI file, ...
When you meet someone who loves 20th-century writer Nelson Algren, the first thing they tell you is how much they love Nelson Algren. The second thing they’ll tell you is that it’s a shame that Algren ...
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Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is in talks to write a screenplay with French director Anne Fontaine about iconic feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson ...
In the Jewish mystical tradition, or Kabbalah, words are the active ingredient of the mortal physical world and the building blocks of creation. The Almighty literally spoke the world we all know into ...
There’ s a moment in Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side, the biography by Bettina Drew, that misses the deeper truth. It’s March of 1975 and Algren is auctioning off the possessions in his Wicker ...
A documentary depiction of an author that Ernest Hemingway declared second only to William Faulkner in the pantheon of U.S. writers By Duane Byrge Algren Film Still - H 2014 Nowhere near the ...
Nelson Algren. (Art Shay archive, 2019, with thanks to the Art Shay Postcard Club) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...