My Night with Studs Terkel

"Take it easy, but take it!

Introduction, of sorts: On October 31, 2008, Studs Terkel “checked out” (his euphemism for death), at age 96. I’m publishing this not as memoriam but in celebration of a man who was my Mick Jagger—that is, if Jagger were an iconoclastic leftist who always wore red-checked shirts, red socks, and blue blazers, had a distinct working guy’s voice, always to…