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...begun again to play its proper part in Chicago's vibrant cultural climate. In the past, that climate had nurtured the talents of such innovators as Sullivan, Wright and Mies van der Rohe, Frank Norris (The Octopus), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio), Carl Sandburg, James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan), and the "Chicago School" of jazz. Today, Chicago is characteristically self-conscious about its "second city'' creativity, even though young people like Shelley Berman. Negro Dick Gregory, Bob Newhart and Nichols & May have all sparked new trends in comedy entertainment and other theatrical forms-notably the cerebral cabaret satire...
...early 1930s, Americans were being saturated with "tough" writing: Studs Lonigan swaggered the streets of Chicago, Hemingway's bulls and men met with grace under pressure, Popeye had his will of Temple Drake, and Erskine Caldwell's degenerates roistered on Tobacco Road. Upon all this hardness, rawness and ache, a volume of stories descended almost like a balm in 1934: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love...
...Retired American League Umpire Emmet ("Red") Ormsby, 62, was understandably surprised to read in James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrel's book, My Baseball Diary, that "Red Ormsby was found broke and dead in a cheap hotel." Not only is Red's health good, but he has been thriving for years. He is both a lecturer and an employee of Chicago's Liquor License Appeal Commission. (Typical lecture topic: "Kill the Umpire.") By killing the umpire prematurely, he charged, Farrell would cost him countless lecture bookings. Ormsby slapped him with a $250,000 suit for damages...
Interviewed by the quarterly English-language Paris Review, rough, tough Chicago Novelist Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren, 46, gratuitously slipped a needle into the unprotected backside of rough, tough Chicago Novelist James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell. Said Algren: "Farrell . . . isn't even a real good stenographer ... He compares himself with Theodore Dreiser, but I don't think he's in Dreiser's league. He's as bad a writer as Dreiser, but he doesn't have the compassion that makes Dreiser's bad writing important." In Manhattan, Author Farrell...
...socially conscious '30s, when rage was all the rage, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan seemed the sort of protest against a poor slum kid's lot that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...