Nelson Algren Live: The Lightless Room, read by Willem Dafoe
Actor Willem Dafoe reads from Nelson Algren's "The Lightless Room", an 1939 story published for the first time in Entrapment and Other Writings from Seven Stories Press. The story of Blackie Cavanaugh, Chicago welterweight, and his final match against Benny Speciale.
Originally recorded at Nelson Algren Live at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, April 6, 2009.
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