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• Joe Drogos: Hey, Schmuck,I just read your comments-- ain't it amazing that someone who was actually falking blacklisted would be redbaited after he was dead? Come to think of it, though, Studs did always say that being blacklisted was one of his greatest honors and that getting kicked off television pushed him into radio and, eventually, books.
  
  
• Joe Drogos: WFMT posted remembrances of Studs here: http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=1,1,41,31. Also, Eight Forty-Eight's Richard Steele hosted a show with Quentin Young, Jaime Kalven and Alex Kotlowitz that basically featured caller's memories of Studs. You can find that here: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_848.aspx?episode=29910
  
  
• Just some schmuck: You must have missed this other article in the Times about Terkel, "An Appraisal" by Edward Rothstein that appeared on November 2. In this ridiculous commentary on Terkel's work, Rothstein points to what he sees as Marxist philosophy underlying Terkel's work and he stops just short of calling him a communist, as exemplified in
  
  
• Susannah: Thanks for your comments, Kathie and Mike! Sorry for the delay in posting them: We had some technical issues. Your lists of works you teach makes me wish we could sit down and talk classes, reading lists, assignments. Keep on keepin' on.
  
  
• Kathie B,: I remember reading Great Expectations (loved it), The Outsiders, and Pigman. Pretty sure we read Romeo & Juliet and Catcher in the Rye. I currently teach a College-level intro to lit course and am teaching the novels On the Road and Sula, plus a number of short stories and novel excerpts, including excerpts from Anna
  
  

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