![]() ![]() The result is a panoramic view of people and professions, encompassing nearly every imaginable attitude towards work, representing a wide swath of the public without reducing variation to a single narrative.īooks like this are especially valuable, considering how prone we are to taking work for granted. Terkel is the ideal person for this task, able to ask probing but open-ended questions, creating interviews that follow the train of the subject’s thoughts without straying off topic. And considering how messy, faltering, and scatterbrained most ordinary speech is, rare talent is required to edit it into readable form while preserving the subject’s voice. ![]() The ability to get everyday people to open up and share their private thoughts is an uncommon skill. Terkel serves as a stenographer and redactor, recording interviews and editing them into readable format. The real authors are the 133 subjects of Terkel’s interviews. It is not really accurate to call Terkel the “author” of this book. When these people is buried, he’s buried here for life. They ask me if it’s true that when we bury somebody we dig ‘em out in four, five years and replace ‘em with another one. In the Heat: Elche… on Alicante & the Island of…Ģ023: New Year… on In the Heat: Elche & … Jaca: A Slightly Uns… on A Highly Unsuccessful Jou… ![]() Reflections on Readi… on Ancient Cities: Istanbul ![]()
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