Here’s an excellent profile of writer and historian Studs Terkel from the British paper The Independent, published a couple of months ago to coincide with his latest book, a memoir of his own life entitled “Touch And Go”.
In related news, Studs Terkel is apparently STILL ALIVE! He’s 95 years old now and has had to give up his cigars and his habit of walking all over the city of Chicago (once, about 20 years ago, I literally bumped into him as I was walking in The Loop myself. He just kept walking, and it took me a good couple of seconds to figure out who I’d just collided with). It will be a sad day when he finally departs, but I will look forward to reading this book; I’ve enjoyed every other book of his that I’ve ever read and would love to hear his own story in his own words.
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It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
So, you really connected with Studs. How many people can say that?
Yes, you could say I had quite an impact on him.