The city wasn't really a bad place to live. It was a very good place to live. Itjust happened to be a very good corrupt place to live.
Albany, New York, in the 1930s, is the setting for a trilogy of novels by the Irish-American writer William Kennedy , whose most recent work, Ironweed, won a Pulitzer Prize. In conversation with Tony Gould , he presents as a microcosm 'one of the ten bottom places of the Earth'.
Producer MICHAEL STEVENSON (R)