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Book Beat

"BOOK BEAT is a weekly half-hour series in which Robert Cromie, book editor of the Chicago Tribune, interviews a recently published author. The guest tells how the work came to be written and elaborates on episodes of particular interest in it.

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Robert Cromie
Self - Host
Nelson Algren
Self
Robert Crichton
Self

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Episode 1

Chicago and Literature

Tue, Dec 3, 1963

University of Chicago Press editor Kenneth Douglas moderates a discussion with writers Algren and Farrell and Hoke Norris, literary editor of the Chicago Sun-Times.

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