Hard Times

OK, this is swiftly becoming the Dead Writers blog, owing mainly to my slow pace. So far this autumn I've posted new bits at roughly the same rate as major American authors have passed away. But I feel compelled to write a little about Studs Terkel, who died earlier this month. He's credited with inventing, or at least popularizing, the genre of oral history with his books like Working, The Good War, and Hard Times. I would be dishonest to go on and on praising him like long-time admirer sinc...