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Steve Dale's Other WorldMary Wisniewski’s latest book on the life Nelson Algren is a treat
Steve Dale is joined by veteran Chicago journalist and author Mary Wisniewski to discuss her latest literary endeavor about Nelson Algren, “Algren: A Life.” Known for her deep roots in Chicago’s history and culture, Mary shares the inspiration behind her new book and the stories that define the city’s unique character. Whether you’re a history buff, a fellow Chicagoan, or just a fan of great storytelling, this conversation offers a fascinating look at the craft of writing and the soul of the Windy City.
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2026-02-2300 min
BookOdysseyThe Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson AlgrenThe provided text is comprised of excerpts from and commentary about the novel "The Man with the Golden Arm" by Nelson Algren, focusing on the author's personal life and his creation, Frankie Machine. The commentary reveals Algren's bitterness over receiving minimal compensation for the movie rights to his work, in stark contrast to its cinematic success. The fictional excerpts detail the grim, desperate lives of characters like the drug-addicted stud-poker dealer Frankie Machine, his disabled and accusatory wife Sophie, the small-time criminal Sparrow Saltskin, and other inhabitants of a seedy Chicago neighborhood marked by poverty, addiction, and crime. Frankie's...
2025-11-0409 min
Les Fabuleux Destins[LOVE STORY] Simone de Beauvoir et Nelson Algren, un amant pour se sentir plus libre ?Un amant pour se sentir plus libre ?
C'est la femme forte, libre, par excellence. L'éminence féministe et existentialiste. Son fameux turban, ses grandes boucles d'oreilles et sa relation si spéciale avec Sartre. Mais Simone de Beauvoir a aimé un autre homme, avec une intensité toute particulière : Nelson Algren.
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Ecrit et raconté par Alice Deroide
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2025-07-2710 min
The Kitchen Sisters PresentAmerica Eats - 1930s WPA Chronicle of Food, Ritual and Celebration at The Library of CongressFish Fries, political BBQs, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipes across the United States. America Eats, a WPA project, sent writers like Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Stetson Kennedy out to document America’s relationship with food during the Great Depression.When we were searching for Hidden Kitchens and stories about how people come together through food we opened up a phone line on NPR and asked the nation for their ideas. Mark Kurlansky, author of Choice Cuts: Food Writing from Arou...
2025-07-0116 min
Les Belles Lettres : extraits sonoresNelson Algren - Un meublé dans la pénombreUn meublé dans la pénombre rassemble, pour la première fois et par ordre chronologique (de 1934 à 1981), des nouvelles, des récits, des poèmes et des articles de Nelson Algren devenu une sorte de conscience de la démocratie américaine.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
2025-05-0205 min
The Story of WritingStory of Writing March 28, 2025The birthday club includes Maxim Gorky, Nelson Algren, Iris Chang, and Jennifer Weiner - with a reading from Algren's "Chicago: City on the Make."
2025-03-2805 min
A la folie, pas du toutLES RÉSISTANTES | Simone de Beauvoir et Nelson Algren : un amant pour se sentir plus libre ?Le couple est aussi un lieu de résistance et d'engagement pour les femmes. A l'occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes le 8 mars, Bababam vous plonge dans l'histoire de ces couples d'exception comme Marie et Pierre Curie, Frida Khalo et Diego Rivera, Virginia Woolf et Vita Sackville West, ou encore Lee Miller et Man Ray... des couples au sein desquels l'épanouissement de la femme et lutte pour ses droits ont été primordiaux.Un amant pour se sentir plus libre ?C'est la femme forte, libre, par excellence. L'éminence féministe et exis...
2025-03-0609 min
Clásicos en el AireEl Hombre del Brazo de Oro (de Otto Preminger con Frank Sinatra y Kim Novak)"¡Gracias por escuchar este episodio! Puedes disfrutar de más contenido y seguir nuestro programa completo en iVoox: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-clasicos-aire_sq_f12479171_1.html
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Título original: The Man with the Golden Arm
Año: 1955
Duración: 119 minutos
País: Estados Unidos
Dirección: Otto Preminger
Guion: Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer (basado en la novela de Nelson Algren)
Música: Elmer Bernstein
Fotografía: Sam Leavi...
2024-10-231h 58Clásicos en el AireEl Hombre del Brazo de Oro (de Otto Preminger con Frank Sinatra y Kim Novak)"¡Gracias por escuchar este episodio! Puedes disfrutar de más contenido y seguir nuestro programa completo en iVoox: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-clasicos-aire_sq_f12479171_1.html
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Título original: The Man with the Golden Arm
Año: 1955
Duración: 119 minutos
País: Estados Unidos
Dirección: Otto Preminger
Guion: Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer (basado en la novela de Nelson Algren)
Música: Elmer Bernstein
Fotografía: Sam Leavi...
2024-10-231h 58
Plages d'EncreN°179. N. Algren. Chicago. Le Ciel et l'Enfer. Bartillat.Un beau portrait d'une cité américaine, par Nelson Algren. Un classique de 1951, publié brillamment voici quelque temps dans une bonne traduction française, chez Bartillat.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
2024-08-2604 min
RCF CorsicaPlages D'encre. 260824. N°179. Nelson Algren. Chicago. Le Ciel Et L'Enfer. Bartillat..WAVUn beau portrait d'une cité américaine, par Nelson Algren. Un classique de 1951, publié brillamment voici quelque temps dans une bonne traduction française, chez Bartillat.
2024-08-0904 min
Get Hooked On Into A High-Impact Full Audiobook On The Go.Algren by Mary WisniewskiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/153368to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Algren
Author: Mary Wisniewski
Narrator: Gary Houston, Mary Wisniewski
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 07-05-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: United States
Publisher's Summary:
A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, lived an outsider's life himself. He spent a month in prison as a young man for the theft of a typewriter; his involvement in Marxist groups earned him a lengthy FBI dossier; and he spent much of his life palling around with...
2024-07-059h 46
The Ben Joravsky ShowMary Wisniewski—The Great Mr. AlgrenMary Wisniewski talks about the life and legacy of Nelson Algren, whose novels remain as relevant as ever. She wrote Algren: A Life. Originally dropped—March, 2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2024-07-0238 minThe Story of WritingStory of Writing March 28, 2024Happy birthdays to Maxim Gorky, Nelson Algren, Iris Chang, and Jennifer Weiner - with a reading from Algren's "The Neon Wilderness."
2024-03-2805 min
Sogni AmericaniLa popolazione disarcionata e deportata della LouisianaDieci giorni fa circa tornavo in Italia dalla Louisiana. Oltre ad aver avuto la fortuna di trascorrere una notte di Capodanno molto diversa dal solito a New Orleans, ho avuto anche la possibilità di andare in zone rurali e provinciali di questo stato in cui non mettevo piede da quasi quattro anni: per i tempi degli Stati Uniti, un’eternità. Ci sono andata con gli occhi ben aperti: queste sono proprio le zone in cui l’America rivela il suo volto più degradato, povero, violento e spesso scoraggiato. Esattamente il volto che ti avevo proposto nella scorsa newsletter (l’avevo def...
2024-01-1312 min
New Books in LiteratureMark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by his stack of "to-do" books until, one day, his daughter comes home with the worst news of her life. Everything changes. As his broken heart reengages, he steps back into a new world. He sees his ex-wife has launched into a larger life than the one they'd shared. He is surprised to find it easier to talk to his son's immigrant girlfriend...
2024-01-1040 min
Burned By BooksMark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by his stack of "to-do" books until, one day, his daughter comes home with the worst news of her life. Everything changes. As his broken heart reengages, he steps back into a new world. He sees his ex-wife has launched into a larger life than the one they'd shared. He is surprised to find it easier to talk to his son's immigrant girlfriend...
2024-01-1040 min
Crime Time FMTED FLANAGAN In Person With Paul Best of 2023TED FLANAGAN EVERY HIDDEN THING, of Worcester (Woosta) Mass,, and PAUL BURKE chat about some of their favourite crime novels of 2023 and gives us a couple of titles to look out for in 2024, Translation,EVERY HIDDEN THING Big city politics, nasty secrets, a dirty cop, and a deranged sociopath set the stage for a riveting journey deep into the urban jungle. The last scion of a once-powerful political family, Worcester mayor John O'Toole has his sights set on vastly higher aspirations.When night shift paramedic Thomas Archer uncovers a secret that could...
2023-12-2659 min
The Right Brain CaféShould Writers hangout with Literary folk?In this episode, Regina and James discuss a quote by Nelson Algren, an American writer whose 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. Should writers avoid other writers? About This Podcast:From the Office of Demonology & Regina's Haunted Library, Book Worms Horror Zine editors Regina Saint Claire and James Ippoliti offer tips on writing for the horror genre to help authors get published in the Book Worms Horror Zine. A great zine needs great fict...
2023-10-2620 min
Historia FactorisNelson Algren, un outsider engagéNelson Algren est un romancier juif qui a écrit des ouvrages dénonçant la misère, de la violence et la corruption. Dans ce podcast vous verrez que sa vie est plus ou moins liée à celle de Simone de Beauvoir.Pour avoir accès à l'article de ce podcast, cliquez ici : Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
2023-08-0909 min
J'ai un truc à vous lireExtrait de Lettres à Nelson Algren de Simone de Beauvoir Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
2023-06-3001 min
City DwellerMary Wisniewski: Chicago Journalist and AuthorMary Wisniewski has 32 years of experience as a reporter in Chicago, most recently as transportation columnist for the Chicago Tribune. "Algren: A Life," her biography of Chicago writer Nelson Algren, won the Society of Midland Authors 2017 award for best biography and the Chicago Writers Association award for best non-fiction. Mary has taught creative writing at the Newberry Library and creative nonfiction at Northwestern University's graduate program. She continues to write stories and essays about Chicago neighborhoods and people, and review books and plays.
2023-02-1717 min
Nation of WritersEpisode 25: Nelson AlgrenIn this episode, we discuss the life and work of Chicago legend Nelson Algren, one of the most well known literary writers in America in the 40s and 50s who eventually fell into obscurity toward the end of his life. Algren is perhaps best known for his novels such as A Walk on the Wild [...]
2023-01-1155 min
The Trans-AtlanticistNovel RomAntics Literature of Chicago Series #3: Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)with Douglas Cowie and Mark Blottner
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, documentary filmmaker Mark Blottner, discuss The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. Published in 1949, it tells the story of a war veteran's struggle with morphine addiction, and in so doing paints a portrait of a marginal neighborhood in Chicago and its people.
2022-08-2646 min
City DwellerBilly Lombardo: Chicago Native, Author, and TeacherBilly Lombardo is the 2011 Nelson Algren Award winner for Fiction. He is the author of four books of fiction – The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, How to Hold a Woman, The Man with Two Arms, and Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns. His novel, How to Hold a Woman was re-issued as Morning Will Come by Tortoise Books in January 2021.
A high school English Literature and creative writing teacher for 25 years at The Latin School of Chicago, and for nine years at other Chicago-area high schools, he now runs his own writing and editing business called Writing Pros/e.
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2022-05-2725 min
Podcast de La Gran Evasión369 - El Hombre del Brazo de Oro - Otto Preminger - La gran EvasiónEste thriller con toque de drama sobre un adicto a las drogas recién salido del penal -un entregado Frank Sinatra-, resultó una provocación en la década de los 50. Frankie Machine vuelve en el bus de línea a su viejo barrio de Chicago, mira a través de la ventana el bar de siempre, con los parroquianos conocidos, entre ellos el camello que le suministraba la droga y le espera, su exjefe Schwiefka le recuerda todos los días que es le el mejor croupier de los contornos y debe volver a repartir los naipes en las partida...
2022-05-111h 14
2022 Illini Media Hall of FameNelson AlgrenNelson Algren was an American author whose 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award for Fiction and was later made into a movie, with protagonist Frankie Machine played by Frank Sinatra. Algren was born in 1909 in Detroit and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He was a reporter for The Daily Illini and graduated from Illinois in 1931, during the height of the Depression. Like many in that era, he struggled to find work--and began taking jobs anywhere and everywhere, including as a carnival worker and a coffee salesman. He was inducted into the Academy...
2022-04-2717 min
Love the WordsLove The Words 177Three American experts discuss the literature of Chicago in respect to a ground-breaking new book, Chicago: A Literary History. Expect lively mentions of Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandberg, Studs Terkel.
2022-04-201h 00
流浪Riddle｜移动书屋双语电台017 睡前英文｜致敬中央公园的街边诗人 by Yuan #美国 #纽约致敬中央公园的街边诗人To A Street Poet in Central Park by Yuan文章链接 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/LRMNVwllxLT-0sv1K0XR4w背景音乐 阿斯豆 - Lettres à Nelson Algren，昨夜派对（L.N Party)- Love Is The KeyRiddle Apple Podcast https://apple.co/3tl9UBf Riddle 喜马拉雅 https://bit.ly/riddleximalaya Riddle Wechat Blogs https://bit.ly/riddlewechatRiddle Instagram https://bit.ly/riddleinsta Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/yuanriddle Before you read about this new stranger talent I met in New York. Allow me to take a deep breath and read the two following poems for you.
2022-04-1920 min
The Scuttlebutt Podcast138 - Raised By A Glass w/ author Gunthar FleckSend us some Fan Mail? Yes please!Over the course of his unpublished career, Gunthar Fleck has written not only an impressive number of emails as a Finance professional, but volumes of creative writing which have unceremoniously found their way to a trash can on Chicago’s Blue Line. Much more has been conceived since that devastating moment, with his largest debut coming from a Yelp review of the local “Rock N’ Roll” McDonalds; garnering a "critical masterpiece" response within the underground of Chicago’s River North Neighborhood. Gunthar lives in Chicago by way of Atlanta. He draws on a...
2022-04-111h 18
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingSteven SchwartzSteven Schwartz is the author of four short story collections, Little Raw Souls, To Leningrad in Winter, Lives of the Fathers, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories, and three novels, The Tenderest of Strings, Therapy and A Good Doctor’s Son. His fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Cohen Award, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, two O. Henry Prize Story Awards, the Foreword Review Gold Medal for Short Stories, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Bread Loaf. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
2022-02-071h 05
Chicago Writers PodcastEp 24: Adam Morgan and Sara Cutaia Talk Chicago LitFor the last episode of 2021, Adam Morgan and Sara Cutaia talk about all things Chicago literature, past and present, plus, for some reason, You Got Mail. Partial list of books and authors mentioned: The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Steilstra The Upstairs House by Julia Fine Mitchell S. Jackson Electric Arches by Eve L Ewing The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Native Son by Richard Wright The Adventures of Augie March by Sau...
2021-12-2756 min
Studs Terkel Archive PodcastFederico Fellini and actors discuss their film "La Dolce Vita" and the character SteinerFirst broadcast on December 01, 1962. Studs Terkel plays interview clips of actors [Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Cuny] and the director Federico Fellini discussing their film "La Dolce Vita" and the character Steiner. At the beginning of the program Studs Terkel interviews Nelson Algren, a writer, and Mario Devecki (a person who made the film "La Dolce Vita" happen) about La Dolce Vita and Steiner.
2021-12-0151 min
Windy City Historians PodcastEpisode 25 – A Book and A Beer: George Ade and the Old-Time SaloonThe path to riches is not often associated with journalism, but in the case of George Ade, writing for Chicago newspapers was his road to wealth and fame. Ade, (1866-1944) who was born and raised in Kentland, Indiana, attended Purdue University and then came to Chicago to work as a reporter in the heydays of newspapers.
Today George Ade is rarely remembered, with his books out of print, and decades since his musical comedies were performed. But from the 1890s to the early 20th century, he was compared to Mark Twain, a friend of his, and had...
2021-10-2856 min
Der Literaturpodcast der vergessenen BücherFranßen zu Nelson Algren "Der Mann mit dem goldenen Arm"Literaturpodcast der vergessenen Bücher
Frankie Machine ist Berufskartenspieler. Seiner Heroinsucht ist er hinter Gittern entkommen und kehrt nach seiner Haftstrafe clean zu seiner Frau Zosch zurück, die nach einem Unfall in einem Rollstuhl sitzt. Frankie hat im Knast Schlagzeug spielen gelernt und träumt von einer Karriere als Musiker abseits der Spieltische.
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2021-08-0402 min
Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, & Detective FictionE58 -- Chicago NoirBlankers! Zip up your windbreakers and don't forget change for the highway tolls — in Episode 58 we head to Chicago to wrap our heads around Chicago Noir. We talk about Chicago as a city for noir, and we look at crime fiction by Nelson Algren, Howard Browne, Frederic Brown, Sara Paretsky, Michael Harvey, Danny Gardner, Bob Hartley, & more. Italian beef, tavern cut pizza, Old Style, Malort, murder. You ready? Get in touch with the show: Email: pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: @pointblanknoir Facebook: Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, an...
2021-06-221h 07
Big TableBig Table Episode 6: Nelson AlgrenThe Interview: Biographer Colin Asher, discusses the legacy of one of the greatest unknown American writers, Nelson Algren, a pre-Beat Generation realist who also took the Underground Man to new heights in the 1930s thru the 1970s, writing from the working man and woman’s perspective in Chicago and elsewhere. Here, he discusses his definitive biography, Never A Lovely So Real (Norton).The Reading: Original compositions by Ken Vandermark with Nelson Algren reading The Man with the Golden Arm in the 1970s, unearthed by Mr. Asher. Music: featured in the in the...
2021-05-2121 min
380GdlESCUCHO Y HABLO | Simone de Beauvoir enamorada | por Rodrigo SosaLa relación de la autora francesa con el genio Jean-Paul Sartre mantiene en segundo plano el amor profundo que ella sintió por el estadounidense Nelson Algren, y del cual dejó testimonio en sus memorias: un conjunto de cartas que denuncia su enamoramiento, pero también sus propias ideas sobre el amor romántico.
2021-04-1603 min
eu narro para quem?um amor transatlântico, Simone de Beauvoir.Essa é uma carta da escritora, intelectual, filósofa existencialista, ativista política, feminista e teórica social francesa, Simone de Beauvoir para Nelson Algren.
2021-02-2302 min
The Bay Street Video Podcast#62 - Guncrazy, Tenet and You Can't Kill David Arquette...We conclude our 2020 year-end wrap up with another all-new BSV Podcast!
From Arrow Video's release of TREMORS and Satoshi Kon's PARANOIA AGENT finally seeing the light of day from Funimation to new movies like TENET, SHE DIES TOMORROW and YOU CANNOT KILL DAVID ARQUETTE, it's all here in one jam-packed ep!
And for the final Blind Buy of 2020, Justin and Mark take a look at Tamra Davis's debut feature, the Drew Barrymore-starring GUNCRAZY, now available in a loaded special edition from MVD Entertainment Group!
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TREMORS (Arrow)
VIGILANTE (1982) (UHD) (Blue Underground)
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Warner Archive)
SEVEN WOMEN FOR...
2021-01-111h 24
AWM Author TalksEpisode 24: Colin Asher on Nelson AlgrenToday, we discuss the legacy of Nelson Algren with Colin Asher, author of the biography Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren. This was originally recorded live at the American Writers Museum June 25th, 2019. Quick note: the end of this podcast episode includes a Q&A with the live audience, however their questions were not recorded. We did want to include Colin’s answers though, so we have.
We hope you enjoy entering the mind of a writer.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
“One of the things that interested me most abou...
2020-11-0947 min
The Last Best Hope?The Last Best Hope Shorts: Simone de BeauvoirIn this special episode, Oxford historian Charlotte Moberly tells the story of how the French intellectual and pioneer of second-wave feminism, Simone de Beauvoir was personally and intellectually transformed by her visit to America in 1947. This is the first of a new occasional series of short podcasts exploring individuals' encounters with America -- both the idea and the reality. In this episode Simone de Beauvoir was played by Olivia Marshall. Izzy Collie-Cousins was Janet Flanner, and Alex Hancock was Nelson Algren. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-10-2718 min
Peixe Voador#Ep 52: Escrevo longas cartas pra ninguémPoema O Poeta Pede ao Seu Amor que lhe Escreva de Federico García Lorca; Livro Como Se Fosse a Casa: Uma Correspondência de Ana Martins Marques e Eduardo Jorge; Trechos de Fragmentos de um Discurso Amoroso de Roland Barthes; Matéria do El Pais sobre os relacionamentos nas redes sociais; Cartas de Simone de Beauvoir para Nelson Algren.
2020-10-0220 minWindy City Historians PodcastEpisode 16 - The Second Star - the FireThere is one story well-known throughout the world about the Windy City and a cow kicking over a lantern that set the Great Chicago Fire in motion. The fact that the story of Catherine O'Leary's cow is totally false seems not to matter, as this wrong-headed legend continues to perpetuate itself with the general public. As the newspaper editor Dutton Peabody says in the 1952 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” And so it is, a hundred and fifty years later, Mrs. O’Leary and her cow live on in popular culture.
The events...
2020-08-2359 min
2020-08-1222 min
The CornerstoreMichael Caplan | Nelson Algren documentary, finding true fulfillment in the arts, and moreThe Cornerstore spoke with Columbia College Chicago Film Professor Michael Caplan about the Premiere of his Nelson Algren documentary on WTTW, the journey of entering the creative world and finding true fulfillment in the arts, and more.
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2020-07-2131 min
The CornerStoreMichael Caplan | Nelson Algren documentary, finding true fulfillment in the arts, and more
The Cornerstore spoke with Columbia College Chicago Film Professor Michael Caplan about the Premiere of his Nelson Algren documentary on WTTW, the journey of entering the creative world and finding true fulfillment in the arts, and more.
Used in Chicago’s Nelson Algren — copyright 2007 Seven Stories PressImage Courtesy of Michael Caplan
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2020-07-2100 min
Peixe Voador#Ep29: Amigos, cartas e pedidosO livro de Manuel Bandeira pago pelos amigos artistas; Coisas boas pela internet que florescem em tempos tão ruins; Página de poesia de Nydia Bonetti; Livros para ler sempre; Projeto Janela Brasil; Trecho do livro Baladas de Hilda Hilst; Poema Fanatismo de Florbela Espanca; Carta de Simone de Beauvoir para Nelson Algren.
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2020-06-1916 min
El salón audiovisual de Francis PouTHE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (PRIMEVIDEO)El hombre del brazo de oro es una película estadounidense de 1955, del género drama, basada en la novela homónima de Nelson Algren. Producida y dirigida por Otto Preminger, y protagonizada por Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak y Darren McGavin en los papeles principales.
Fue nominada a diferentes categorías del Premio Oscar 1956: Mejor actor (Frank Sinatra), Mejor dirección artística en blanco y negro, y Mejor banda sonora original (Elmer Bernstein).
Frank Sinatra fue nominado al premio BAFTA 1957 como mejor actor.
Cuenta la historia de un adicto a la heroína, que sale limpio de la cárc...
2020-04-1024 min
All Write in Sin CityWhat It Might Feel Like to Hope: Short FictionDorene O’Brien is a Detroit-based creative writing teacher and writer. Her stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She has won fellowships from the NEA and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Madison Review, Chicago Tribune, Montreal Review, and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her first fiction collection won the USA Best Book Award for Short Fiction. Her second full-length collection, What It Might Feel Lik...
2020-04-0530 min
Si no lo has leídoAUTORES NORTEAMERICANOS, R.PigliaEscritores norteamericanos (2018)
Ricardo Piglia
Ediciones Diego Portales, Colección Vidas Ajenas
Este libro es una compilación de breves retratos de escritores del siglo XX que se hizo originalmente para una colección de cuentos a la que se la llamo Crónicas de Norteamérica. En una de las notas previas a modo de prólogo, Piglia, admite que su interés por estos escritores tiene relación con la influencia que Borges y Cortázar tuvieron en su escritura, quienes además hicieron “estragos en su generación”. Reconoce a su vez la influencia que tuvieron estos escritores norteamericanos...
2020-03-3102 min
The Crime CafeInterview with Crime Writer Bob Hartley — S. 5, Ep. 22Debbi Mack interviews crime writer Bob Hartley on the Crime Cafe podcast.For your podcasting needs, I use and recommend Blubrry Podcasting.I also recommend Stitcher Premium, if you’re a fan of podcasts. If you like true crime or crime fiction, there are loads of podcasts out there for you. And with Stitcher Premium you can listen to the exclusive archives from Criminology or bonus episodes from True Crime Garage. You can also listen ad-free to episodes of your favorite podcasts.I’ve subscribed, and for only $4.99 a month, it’s...
2020-03-2929 min
The Crime CafeInterview with Crime Writer Bob Hartley — S. 5, Ep. 22Debbi Mack interviews crime writer Bob Hartley on the Crime Cafe podcast.
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2020-03-2929 min
NADA MÁS QUE LIBROSNada más que libros - Simone de Beauvoir“No se nace mujer, sino que se hace, se deviene mujer. Así pues, la pasividad que caracteriza esencialmente a la mujer “femenina” es un rasgo que se desarrolla en ella desde los primeros años. Pero es falso pretender que se trata de una circunstancia biológica; en realidad, se trata de un destino que le ha sido impuesto por sus educadores y por la sociedad”.
“El Segundo Sexo”. Simone de Beauvoir.
Una de sus jóvenes amantes, Nathalie, dijo de ella que era como un reloj dentro de una nevera. Nathalie se sentía despechada porque Simone de Beauvoir no le daba todo e...
2020-03-2626 min
Explore Top-Rated Audiobooks for Your LibraryThe Last Carousel (Authored by Nelson Algren)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423029 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Last Carousel
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Ramiz Monsef, Nicol Zanzarella, Richard Ferrone, Richard Poe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 19 hours 4 minutes
Release date: November 26, 2019
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary: The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren’s beloved Chic...
2019-11-267h 04
Get Your Favorite Digital Audiobooks with Easy AccessNonconformity: Writing on Writing (Authored by Nelson Algren)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415025 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Nonconformity: Writing on Writing
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Richard Poe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Release date: October 1, 2019
Genres: Lessons in Philosophy
Publisher's Summary: The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers. “You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren in his only lon...
2019-10-022h 54
Lumpen Radio: Week In ReviewLumpen Week in Review • 9-6-19This week we discuss the Satanic Temple and a new film; learn about the FBI’s attack on Nelson Algren and discover the truth about social media. All this plus Size Matters, the Trump Diaries and Are We Cool Yet? Only on the Lumpen
Week in Review for September 6 2019. We spoke to Jex Blackmore, Colin Asher, Richard Seymour, Jessica Tylkowski, Kyle Syzmankowski, The Lumpen Players, df and Rothschild Sponsors. Music by Resavoir and Aweful.
2019-09-0655 min
Eye 94Eye 94 • 9-1-19This episode featured Colin Asher, author of “Never A Lovely So Real,” a biography of Nelson Algren, out now from WW Norton. This episode first
aired on September 1, 2019.
2019-09-0158 min
Florida Writer PodcastLaura Krughoff--Literary FictionLaura Krughoff is the author of the mini-book of short fiction Wake in the Night (Arc Pair Press, 2018) and the novel My Brother’s Name (Scarletta Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in national media outlets including The Huffington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, Writer’s Digest, SheWired, and Dot429 Magazine, and her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines and journals such as Threepenny Review, Printers Row Journal, Seattle Review, Washington Square Review, qu.ee/r Magazine, and most recently Masque & Spectacle. Her short fiction has won a Pushcart Priz...
2019-08-2422 minThe Florida Writer PodcastLaura Krughoff--Literary FictionLaura Krughoff is the author of the mini-book of short fiction Wake in the Night (Arc Pair Press, 2018) and the novel My Brother’s Name (Scarletta Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in national media outlets including The Huffington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, Writer’s Digest, SheWired, and Dot429 Magazine, and her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines and journals such as Threepenny Review, Printers Row Journal, Seattle Review, Washington Square Review, qu.ee/r Magazine, and most recently Masque & Spectacle. Her short fiction has won a Pushcart Priz...
2019-08-2422 min
The Monster ProfessorMonsters and Storytelling with Pinckney Benedict
In this one-year anniversary episode, I speak with Monster Professor VIP and most frequent guest, Pinckney Benedict, this time more broadly about storytelling, podcasting, and his favorite monsters.
Pinckney Benedict hails from West Virginia and earned degrees from Princeton and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has published a novel, DOGS OF GOD, and three books of short fiction, the most recent of which is MIRACLE BOY AND OTHER STORIES. His work has appeared in The Oxford Book of the American Short Story (in two editions), the Pushcart Prize series (3 times), the O. Henry Award series (tw...
2019-08-2352 min
Stream Complete Digital Audiobooks for Your LibraryGreat American Authors Read from Their Works, Vol. 2 (Authored by James Jones, Nelson Algren, Bernard Malamud, John Updike)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393144 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Vol. 2
Series: #2 of The Great American Authors Read from Their Works Series
Author: James Jones, Nelson Algren, Bernard Malamud, John Updike
Narrator: Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2019
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary: These four recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our l...
2019-08-211h 14
ELFM Summer Broadcast 2019: Access All AreasStuds Terkel ArchiveFew people in the history of radio accessed more areas of the human spirit than the great Chicago free-spirit and oral historian Studs Terkel. ELFM’s Peter Spafford talks with Tony Macaluso about his experiences helping build the digital archive of 5,600 radio programmes created by Studs Terkel after he died at the age of 96 in 2008. Terkel chose as his epitaph, “Curiosity did not kill this cat!” and this radio programme celebrates his ever impertinent spirit with snippets of conversations with blues musician Big Bill Broonzy, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, writers James Baldwin and Nelson Algren and reflections on loving a city...
2019-08-071h 04
Animación Lectura 18/19 EneroSimone Beauvoir. Una carta a Nelson Algren. Voz de Charo Hortal. Animación Lectura. 18/19 Enero.Simone Beauvoir.
Una carta a Nelson Algren.
Voz de Charo Hortal. Animación Lectura.
18/19 Enero.
2019-06-0402 min
The Young Southpaw Part Of An HourEpisode Nineteen- Nietzsche, Time-Traveling Wu Tang Fan“He doesn’t wanna be bogged down with inventing cinema as well as bending the rules of physics, he just wants to get in his time machine and go to the movies…we’ve all been there…”
In which Young Southpaw queries if Nietzsche invented the Wu Tang Clan leading him to become a prototype for Dr. Who, wonders who the German philosopher was trying to bring to China to beat Wham! to it, and reveals ol’ Zarathustra’s plans for a highly irregular James Bond film.
Taking in European currency, the TARDIS, 36 Chambers, Shao Lin & Wu Tang, I...
2019-04-1913 min
Life, Music, and the Pursuit of AnswersEpisode 4: Nelson Algren, Del Close, Acting as Life Coaching, and Life as Acting Coaching, with Mary ReynardMary Reynard is a longtime actor and acting coach living in Los Angeles. Phil Circle and Mary met through the Chicago Actors Studio, where she was teaching for some time and whose founder is a student of Mary's late husband, the great Ted Liss.
After Mary gives a little run down of her fascinating history surrounded by icons, she and Phil move into a discussion about music and acting, coaching in these professions, and ultimately how the techniques learned to master these performing arts can be beneficial to performing well in life as a h...
2019-03-2252 min
Book FightEp 260-Winter of Wayback, 1991 (Nelson Algren winners)This week, as we continue our adventure through the 90s, we're discussing both the winner and runner-up stories from 1991's Nelson Algren Prize, sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Tom Barbash won for his story, "Howling at the Moon," and Patricia Stevens came in second for her story, "Leaving Fort Ord." Barbash would go on to publish a few books, while Stevens seems to have mostly left fiction behind. Also this week, we revisit a piece by Jacob Weisberg that called out a couple big-name editors for not doing their jobs--which caused some serious blowback in the publishing...
2019-01-141h 02
Triple F - Fashion, Fitness, and of course FoodEpisode 093: Taste With Jais@tastewithjais
http://tastewithjais.com/
“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose – you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real” – Nelson Algren
After nearly 22 hours of traveling, he remembers stepping off the plane and walking down the steps onto the tarmac. It was about 5:00 am and the sun was peeking out from behind the tall palm trees. It was hot, humid, and muggy. That’s when it hit him – the smell. It was a fascinating combination of wood smoke, spices, and putrefying garbage. He had never experienced anything quite like it. Like someone coming out o...
2018-04-1137 min
The Deerfield Public Library Podcast12: Art Shay, photographer & writerLegendary photographer and writer Art Shay's work has appeared in LIFE, Time, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. Our conversation is full of first-hand accounts of some of the most the famous people and events of the 20th century--and local Deerfield history. We learn that Nelson Algren and Billy Corgan often visited Shay in Deerfield and Eleanor Roosevelt and James Baldwin were in town to support a proposed integrated housing development in the late 1950s and early 60s. Shay was part of the Deerfield Citizens for Human Rights, a group supporting integration. We also hear about Shay's...
2018-01-1130 min
The Max & Tony ShowIn The Shadow Of AlgrenTony On Nelson Algren and Chicago, from his book "This Train"...
2017-11-1004 min
Didactic SynCastDS#99a: Interview with Sarah SchulmanAfter a hiatus of more than eight months, the Didactic SynCast is back. Join me for a conversation with legendary author and activist Sarah Schulman. We discuss her new novel The Cosmopolitans (based on La Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac), the ACT UP Oral History Project, the Boycott/Divest/Sanctions Movement, writing, politics, life, and a dozen other topics.
As always, get in touch through Twitter ( @DukeSkath ) or email ( esp(at)fbesp.org ).
Here are links to events and resources we discussed:
The Cosmopolitans at GoodReads
Conflict is Not Abuse at GoodReads
Lambda Writers Retre...
2016-08-091h 27
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft - Jack DriscollJack Driscoll is the author of four books of poems, two collections of short stories, and four novels. In addition, he is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, the NEH Independent Study Grant, two Pushcart Prizes and Best American Short Story citations, the PEN/Nelson Algren Fiction Award, the Associated Writing Programs Short Fiction Award, and seven PEN Syndicated Project Short Fiction Awards.
His stories have been read frequently over NPR’s “The Sound of Writing,” and his work has appeared nationally in magazines, literary journals, and newspapers such as Chicag...
2015-12-2032 min
Últimos programasAmor sin AscensorLa mente humana, en estado calenturiento, produce extrañas fantasías. Así, abundan las canciones que describen –seamos técnicos- coitos en ascensores. Y no. Cuesta creer que una pareja, encerrada en un ascensor, se dedique a sacudir vigorosamente una caja metálica que cuelga de unos cables.Puede que sea falta de imaginación por nuestra parte. Por el contrario, el programa comienza hoy con dos canciones de altura que retratan comprensibles frustraciones amorosas. La chica de Henri Salvador vive en un séptimo sin ascensor. En el caso de Eddie Cochran, hay que l...
2015-04-2155 minEl Mapa SecretoAmor sin AscensorLa mente humana, en estado calenturiento, produce extrañas fantasías. Así, abundan las canciones que describen –seamos técnicos- coitos en ascensores. Y no. Cuesta creer que una pareja, encerrada en un ascensor, se dedique a sacudir vigorosamente una caja metálica que cuelga de unos cables.Puede que sea falta de imaginación por nuestra parte. Por el contrario, el programa comienza hoy con dos canciones de altura que retratan comprensibles frustraciones amorosas. La chica de Henri Salvador vive en un séptimo sin ascensor. En el caso de Eddie Cochran, hay que l...
2015-04-2100 minÚltimos programasAmor sin AscensorLa mente humana, en estado calenturiento, produce extrañas fantasías. Así, abundan las canciones que describen –seamos técnicos- coitos en ascensores. Y no. Cuesta creer que una pareja, encerrada en un ascensor, se dedique a sacudir vigorosamente una caja metálica que cuelga de unos cables.Puede que sea falta de imaginación por nuestra parte. Por el contrario, el programa comienza hoy con dos canciones de altura que retratan comprensibles frustraciones amorosas. La chica de Henri Salvador vive en un séptimo sin ascensor. En el caso de Eddie Cochran, hay que llegar al piso 20...
2015-04-2155 minThe Kitchen Sisters Present19 – America Eats: A Hidden ArchivePotlucks, church picnics, fish fries, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipes across the United States. America Eats, a WPA project, sent writers like Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Stetson Kennedy out to document America’s relationship with food during the Great Depression.
2015-04-1316 min
Detour - The Unofficial PodcastChicago: Wicker Park - Love, Loss, & BoozeCrawl through the historic dive bars of Wicker Park and meet the people who have loved and lost in these dimly lit spaces.
Starting Location
1201 N Ashland Ave
Duration
1 hour, 15 minutes
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Wicker Park is a neighborhood filled with stories - and there is no better place ot discover them than the historic bars and taverns that have been backdrops for so many.
In the 1940s...
2015-02-021h 08
Conversations With DwyerMichael Caplan - DocumentarianChicago filmmaker Michael Caplan joins the CWMD mics to talk about writer Nelson Algren and his documentary about him entitled, Algren. They also discuss the working class splendor of Chicago, the genius of Wayne Kramer and why Chicago writers like Studs and Algren are selflessness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2014-10-301h 02
Arts FeaturesTribute to Wicker Park’s Queen Bee, Sophie MadejIn honor of the passing of Wicker Park's Queen Bee, Sophie Madej, and inspired by Dave Hoekstra's post on his website, WFMT's Critic at Large, Andrew Patner, takes us on the journey to Chicago's West neighborhood, through the words and voice of Chicago novelist Nelson Algren in this week's Arts Feature. This web addition of this week's Arts Feature includes another selection of Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make.
Links:
Nelson Algren Reads From The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren Reads His Poem "On the Heart It Don’t Matter How You Spell It"
2014-08-3100 min
First DraftFirst Draft - Melissa BankMelissa Bank is the author of the bestseller The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonderspot. She won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She has published stories in the Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope, The North American Review, Other Voices, and Ascent. Her work has also been heard on “Selected Shorts” on National Public Radio. She holds an MFA from Cornell University and divides her time between New York City and East Hampton.
More on First Draft on Aspen Public Radio: aspenpublicradio.org/programs/first-draft
2014-06-0229 min
First DraftFirst Cuts from First Draft - Jack DriscollJack Driscoll is the author of four books of poems, two collections of short stories, and four novels. In addition, he is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, the NEH Independent Study Grant, two Pushcart Prizes and Best American Short Story citations, the PEN/Nelson Algren Fiction Award, the Associated Writing Programs Short Fiction Award, and seven PEN Syndicated Project Short Fiction Awards.
His stories have been read frequently over NPR’s “The Sound of Writing,” and his work has appeared nationally in magazines, literary journals, and newspapers such as Chicago Tribune, Kansas City S...
2014-01-0110 min
First DraftFirst Draft - Jack DriscollJack Driscoll is the author of four books of poems, two collections of short stories, and four novels. In addition, he is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, the NEH Independent Study Grant, two Pushcart Prizes and Best American Short Story citations, the PEN/Nelson Algren Fiction Award, the Associated Writing Programs Short Fiction Award, and seven PEN Syndicated Project Short Fiction Awards.
His stories have been read frequently over NPR’s “The Sound of Writing,” and his work has appeared nationally in magazines, literary journals, and newspapers such as Chicago Tribune, Kansas City S...
2014-01-0129 min
First DraftFirst Draft - Rick BassRick Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1958. His father was a geologist who passed on his passion to his son. Bass received a B.S. in petroleum geology at Utah State University in 1979, and then worked as a gas and oil geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. He started writing short stories during his lunch breaks.
He is the author of over twenty books. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his 2002 collection, The Hermit’s Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Bass’s stories have...
2013-12-2329 min
Vermont Studio CenterVSC Reading Series: Melissa Bank 10/21/13Melissa Bank is the author of two story collections The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She received the Nelson Algren Award for short fiction from the Chicago Tribune and holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University. Her work has been translated into 33 languages.
2013-10-2948 min
StoryLabs Multi Platform StoryTellingData Driven Storytelling - Gunther Sonnenfeld - StoryLabs Podcast Ep16DATA DRIVEN STORYTELLING - "We don't know all that much about our audiences" - Gunther explores the merging of behavioural research and monitoring with new form film, TV branding and it's ultimate effect on storytelling. 'The internet is a giant focus group and we can build applications and services that identify behaviours which can then fuel future projects' and he goes on to say that this is nothing new for product distribution which has developed since the 1950s when understanding what consumers did with new products influenced the next wave - but now this can be done in real time...
2013-07-2700 min
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 357: Joe MenoThis week: Novelist Joe Meno!
Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Great Lakes Book Award, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of five novels, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the Damned, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire. His short story collections are Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir and Demons in the Spring. His short fiction has been published in the likes of McSweeney’s, One Sto...
2012-07-021h 11
Fear No Art Chicago HD VideoChicago Literary AwardsJoin host Elysabeth Alfano of Fear No ART for candid conversations with authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki Mudhubuti on Richard Wright, and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren for the Chicago Literary Awards.
2011-10-1837 minFear No Art Chicago High VideoChicago Literary AwardsJoin host Elysabeth Alfano of Fear No ART for candid conversations with authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki Mudhubuti on Richard Wright, and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren for the Chicago Literary Awards.
2011-10-1800 minFear No Art Chicago AudioChicago Literary AwardsJoin host Elysabeth Alfano of Fear No ART for candid conversations with authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki Mudhubuti on Richard Wright, and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren for the Chicago Literary Awards.
2011-10-1800 min
See Jane Do, hosted by Elisa ParkerAuthor, Kim EdwardsElisa Parker interviews Kim Edwards, the author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, a 122-week New York Times bestseller, and discusses her new release, The Lake of Dreams. Edwards won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award for her collection of short stories, The Secret’s of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Antaeus, Story and The Paris Review and two were performed at Symphony Space and broadcast on Public Radio International. Edwards also teaches writing at the University of Kent...
2011-01-2016 min
Grab Premium Audiobook Titles in High QualityNever Come Morning (By Nelson Algren)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217437 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Never Come Morning
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Various Performers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Release date: July 25, 2010
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Theatre & Radio
Publisher's Summary: This thrilling full-cast audio dramatization of Nelson Algren’s seminal novel Never Come Morning, dubbed "an unusual and brilliant book" by the New York Times, traces the gritty lives of Polish youths in the Chicago slums of the 1940s. "I think it very, very good.” Ernest Hemingway, discussing the novel in a le...
2010-07-261h 13Access Best-Selling Digital Audiobooks for Your LibraryNever Come Morning : Nelson AlgrenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217437 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Never Come Morning
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Various Performers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Release date: July 25, 2010
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Theatre & Radio
Publisher's Summary: This thrilling full-cast audio dramatization of Nelson Algren’s seminal novel Never Come Morning, dubbed "an unusual and brilliant book" by the New York Times, traces the gritty lives of Polish youths in the Chicago slums of the 1940s. "I think it very, very good.” Ernest Hemingway, discussing the novel in a le...
2010-07-251h 13
Rex Sikes' Movie BeatRex Sikes' Movie Beat chats with feature and documentary filmmaker Michael CaplanMichael Caplan's career began in the early '90s, when he worked as a producer of independent films in Chicago. In 10 years he produced 3 critically acclaimed feature films, including The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, & Peoria Babylon,starring David Drake & Ann Cusack. Throughout the decade, Michael wrote and directed several dramatic shorts that screened on PBS in Chicago and film festivals nationwide.
In 2003 he completed Stones from the Soil, a personal documentary about his father, who was one of 150 German Jewish teenagers sent to a farm in Germany by their parents during the Nazi period. The film...
2010-06-0759 min
Indulge In: This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook For Knowledge Hunters.Never Come Morning by Nelson AlgrenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/147575to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Never Come Morning
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
Release date: 07-13-09
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 20 ratings
Genres: Sports
Publisher's Summary:
2009-07-1310h 30
Get Top-Rated Audiobooks in High QualityThe Man with the Golden Arm : Nelson AlgrenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58535 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Man with the Golden Arm
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2009
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary: Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post–World War II America. It is the story of “Frankie Machine,” a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chi...
2009-07-012h 26Get Full Audiobook Titles for Your LibraryThe Man with the Golden Arm : Nelson AlgrenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58535 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Man with the Golden Arm
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2009
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Classics
Publisher's Summary: Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post–World War II America. It is the story of “Frankie Machine,” a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chicag...
2009-06-302h 26
Grab Thousands of Audiobook Collection with Easy AccessA Walk on the Wild Side : Nelson AlgrenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60431 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Walk on the Wild Side
Author: Nelson Algren
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Release date: June 24, 2009
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.4 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary: With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed. “I found my...
2009-06-2410h 42
Bad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 51: William CongerChicago
art legend William Conger!!! He's taught many of you, heck he's taught some of
your teachers. Guest host Tony Fitzpatrick joins Duncan in this great discussion that covers
everything from what a great guy Ed Paschke was, to a lengthy discussion of
Wesley Kimler which is not to be missed. Much talk about art history in Chicago and an overall fascinating
time.
The longest episode yet, but every minute is a gem.
Next week: Our anniversary show!!!
Bill
Conger
Tony Fitzpatrick
Paul Klein
Ed Paschke
Roy Boyd Gallery
2006-08-211h 21