Studs Terkel chats and jokes with Nelson Algren at a party in Chicago. Algren had recently moved from Chicago to Paterson, New Jersey, and this move was the subject of most of the conversation, told mainly through deadpan jokes.
For more archival video of Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren at Media Burn, click the link below:
http://tinyurl.com/y8ohyxh
Interesting how Nelson describes the downfall of American cities and this
was 37 years ago--
juliano66 1 week ago
miss the man. he was brilliant and hysterical and sweet - and wise. and he was older than my mother.
BevGetItInWrithing 3 months ago
Algren is the real deal: tough, compassionate, a fine prose stylist and committed to telling the truth. He is a noble inheritor of the Sherwood Anderson tradition, but harder-boiled, yet still with a romantic streak. Thanks for posting this interview -- I'd never seen film footage of him before. He has left too few inheritors. Chicago should celebrate his memory.
MrMickeybitzko 4 months ago
Nelson Algren is a genius.
lusacf 11 months ago
Stunned.
moccasinbend 1 year ago
no shit
robRKR 2 years ago
@zekal10
robRKR 2 years ago
Nelson Algren fucked Simone de Beauvoir, true story.
zekal10 2 years ago
Amazing! So glad that this exists and can be shared.
williambenton 2 years ago
A classic story told by Algren. What a video gem!
KroovyTix 2 years ago