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The private war against Nelson Algren
Cranbrook Daily Townsman
This famous bit of wisdom comes from the novel "Walk on the Wild Side," written by Nelson Algren in 1956. Algren was one of American's most original and revered authors of the 20th century. His fiction won him numerous awards, including the National ...


 
Carlos Fuentes embraced Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
He told me he admired novelist Nelson Algren and that Chicago was his favorite American city. Fuentes was in Chicago then to present his latest novel at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen and to participate in a symposium on the Spanish ...

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Monmouth-Roseville confers honors on distinguished alumni
Galesburg Register-Mail
By Anonymous Mark Algren, David Love and Golda Ewalt have been named to the Hall of Achievement. Leo and Alisa Ramer, along with Mel Lacey, were honored with Distinguished Service Awards. The induction ceremony is free and open to the public.


 
Monmouth-Roseville hall of achievement announced
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas
Mark Algren, David Love and Golda Ewalt have been named to the Hall of Achievement. Leo and Alisa Ramer, along with Mel Lacey, will be honored with Distinguished Service Awards. The induction ceremony is free and open to the public.

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From The Vault of Art Shay: City Of Broad Protests
Chicagoist
In this time of protest it's good to recall Nelson Algren's City on the Make protest paean to our city, a Whitmanesque prose-poem partly birthed in my '49 Pontiac as I drove Nelson, his mother Goldie and his publisher, Doubleday editor-in-chief Ken ...


 
Massive, Labyrinthine Restaurant, Bar, and Live-Music Venue Called Untitled to ...
Chicagomag.com
—James Beard (1903–1985), American chef and food writer A marker of Nelson Algren's “never a lovely so real” Chicago, the bathhouse has seen its popularity dwindle here from the days when Algren and Saul Bellow wrote gritty rhapsodies about it.

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Onstage, John Conroy's worthy story lives on
Chicago Tribune
And Conroy … is laying out the great Chicago paradox on a slab as surely as did Nelson Algren when he compared the city to a lovely woman with a broken nose." Hedy Weiss of the Sun-Times was equally impressed, writing, "(This is) a vitally important ...

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