Needed – a 21st-century Studs Terkel?

UNT professor Walton Muyumba doesn’t quite say that, nor does one the of people he references, Walter Benn Michaels.

But, in talking about the recent death of John Updike, he does note the need for novelists who don’t engage in identity issues.

I take that a step further, in light of his column, and say we need a new Studs Terkel with more skepticism, a bit less optimism, and a 21-century take on economic and class issues.