{"id":10483,"date":"2013-12-17T20:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T01:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2016-12-12T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:35:58","slug":"studs-terkel-reads-from-chicago-city-on-the-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/12\/studs-terkel-reads-from-chicago-city-on-the-make.html","title":{"rendered":"Terkel Reads from ‘Chicago: City on the Make’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been going through all my old Nelson Algren files to give to Colin Asher<\/a>. He recently landed a contract to write Algren’s biography for Norton — that’s W.W. Norton & Co. (one of the last big indie publishers, and a great one, too). My files include all sorts of primary documents, among them a recording of the memorial tribute<\/a> to Nelson that Studs Terkel organized at Second City on June 29, 1981, not long after Nelson died. Studs arranged the program, emceed the event, and concluded the evening by reading this excerpt from Nelson’s Chicago: City on the Make,<\/em> a poem in prose that both slaps the town in the face and plants a big wet kiss on it. Enjoy!
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