Celebrating Studs

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Studs Terkel turns 95 today, and to honor him, the New Press has reissued ‘The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century’ (with a new foreword by Calvin Trillin), featuring selections from the many oral records that he has created during his career. His memoir, ‘Touch and Go,’ is scheduled to be published by the press in November.

That’s not all, though. The publisher has also set up a Studs link where people can post tributes and read a variety of quirky entries about him and find unexpected features, including his favorite martini recipe or a link to buy red socks online like the ones Terkel wears. The New Press announced in its press materials that a skywriter was chartered to fly over Chicago at 11 a.m. today and write ‘Happy 95th B-Day Studs Terkel’ above the city Terkel has called home since childhood.