StoryCorps founder Isay remembers Studs Terkel on the eve of what would have been Terkel's 100th birthdayStuds Terkel was a magnificent and mighty human being. He was unfailingly generous. He loved people and made their lives better by listening deeply to what they had to say. He found poetry in the words of everyday folks, and was himself one of the great raconteurs ever to grace God's green earth. full story ![]()
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com I worked for years as an editor at Pantheon Books. Its publisher, maybe the most adventurous in the business, was André Schiffrin. Among his many accomplishments, he "discovered" Studs Terkel (already a well-known Chicago radio personality), published his first oral history (Division Street: America), and made him a bestseller. Sometime...
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