when he wrote his first best-selling book at age 55, Louis Studs Terkel was born in New York on May 16, 1912. Studs said, "I came up the year the titanic went down,” he said that often. He moved with his family a few years later, when they purchased the Grand-Wells hotel...
In 1992 Terkel published the daring Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. Perhaps even more than his earlier books and in light of the fact that the United States was feeling the pinch of a recession when the book was released, this oral history exposed ...
New Voices on Studs Terkel - Spring 2022 Check out our collaborative project with teen interns from YouMedia Chicago. Garry Wills writes about Studs' Legacy and the Archive in the New York Review of Books Check out the great historian Garry Wills' article "The Art of the Schmooze", about ...
A native New Yorker who moved to Chicago as a child and came to embrace his adopted city, Terkel excelled at the art of the interview; his ability to draw people out to talk unselfconsciously and at length gave what he called his "memory books" their charm and feel of authenticity. It...
Books written by Terkel; Experiences in interviewing; Techniques used in interviewing people. INSETS: The Studs Terkel file;A conversation, not an interview.Writer (Kalmbach Publishing CoKovachRonaldKovach, R. (2002). Studs Terkel on the art of interviewing. Writer, 115(5), 26-31....
Studs TerkelTer·kel, Studs/ˈtɜːkəl,$ˈtɜːr-stʌdz/ (1912–2008)a US writer and radio broadcaster whose books, includingWorking(1974),The Good War(1984), andRace(1993), were based on the experiences and memories of ordinary American people ...
United States Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912–October 31, 2008[1]) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster who lived in Chicago. ParaCrawl Corpus Available rare books, used books and second hand books of the title "Touch and Go, A Memoir" from Sydney Lewis, Studs...
We knew it was coming but that didn’t make it any easier. We, who sold books andtchotchkesat the Book Corner for all these years, could spend long minutes grousing and carping, moaning and shaking our heads over the owner of the place, but we knew when this day would come we’d ...
BerniceH.Gross University of Chicago StudsTerkel. Working:People TalkAboutWhat They DoAll Day and How They FeelAboutWhat They Do.Pantheon Books, New York, 1974.589 pp. $10. Working isaseriesofinterviewswithAmericanworkersthatwere taped, transcribed, andedited. Working doesnotinferthesocalled &dquo...
Studs Terkel Should point out the article is an astonishing and powerful one, "After Pinkville", in the most recent issue of "The New York Review of Books" by Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky Well, it includes something which really shocked me when I saw it. I, I mention in the articl...