{"id":51471,"date":"2022-06-08T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=51471"},"modified":"2022-06-15T20:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T00:04:16","slug":"these-many-years-later-algren-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/06\/these-many-years-later-algren-for-real.html","title":{"rendered":"These Many Years Later, Algren for Real<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the first time, yesterday, I saw the DVD cover art of “The End Is Nothing the Road Is All,”<\/a> a 2015 documentary. I was poking around on my laptop when I came across it by accident. Except for the fact that it showed up on Facebutt, which I try to avoid, it was a nice surprise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DVD apparently has a bunch of “extras” on it: a slide show of Algren photos by the Chicago photographer and sculptor Steve Deutch<\/a> (who was Algren’s closest friend for two decades from the 1960s to the end of Algren’s life in 1981); several bonus videos, including a short film titled “Algren’s Last Night”; interviews with Mark Blottner and Denis Mueller (who made the film with Ilko Davidov); the scholar Brooke Horvath (on Algren’s” political eye”); the Algren biographer Betttina Drew (on his affair with Simone de Beauvoir); and several other “extras.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s too bad there’s no bonus interview with Colin Asher, whose Algren biography Never A Lovely So Real<\/a><\/em> is the most probing, most revealing, and most complete by far \u2014 in other words, the best \u2014 of the three that have appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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