Stephanie Simon on Studs Terkel

Simon has an article on the front page of today's LAT eulogizing Studs Terkel. The LAT says she's a former staff writer. Currently, she writes for the WSJ. She probably wrote the eulogy before she left the LAT, knowing Terkel wouldn't live forever. Anyhow, it's a brilliant piece, though the subject was less than brilliant in this old fool's opinion. It isn't the first superb piece Simon has published, at the LAT or elsewhere. She's a rising star of journalism. Perhaps she's not merely rising.