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Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren, 1975

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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

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  • Interesting how Nelson describes the downfall of American cities and this

    was 37 years ago--

  • miss the man. he was brilliant and hysterical and sweet - and wise. and he was older than my mother.

  • 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.

  • Nelson Algren is a genius.

  • Stunned.

  • no shit

  • Nelson Algren fucked Simone de Beauvoir, true story.

  • Amazing! So glad that this exists and can be shared.

  • A classic story told by Algren.  What a video gem!

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