Reading Group Trip to Nelson Algren’s Neighborhood

by asamawi | Jun 28, 2022 | American Culture, Excursions, Reading Group

After we completed the extremely challenging novel, we decided it would be nice to take a walk around the area to see the apartments where Algren lived while writing the novel and in the years after and to see if we could find any evidence of the community that he described seventy years ago.  The language in the novel is difficult and the story line is often depressing, so the weather we had for our walk seemed to be a perfect match.