Why won't Nelson Algren go away? A new book arrives by local author Richard Bales, 10 years in the making and covering virtually everything Algren wrote beyond the big books.
in Miller Beach, Indiana, and celebrations of his March 28 birthday, and seminars and …
Bales is an attorney and the author of the deeply researched and influential 2002 book “The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow.” That book’s persuasive argument that the fire was actually started by a character named Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan is what compelled 14th Ward Ald. Edward Burke to proclaim at a meeting of the City Council’s Committee on Fire and Police, “Mrs. Cate O’Leary and her cow are innocent.
He calls Algren a “gifted poet” and, in a chapter devoted to that, he offers a lot of short examples. And one of his most stunning discoveries is “The World’s Busiest Police Station,” an article that appeared in a 1950 issue of Negro Digest. “Written more than sixty years before the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement,” Bales writes, “it is a race relations masterpiece.” You can judge for yourself because the whole story is reprinted in this book.
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