Listening Is an Act of Love
A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
By Dave Isay; Dave Isay (Narrator); (Read by)
(Penguin Audio, Compact Disc, Abridged, 9780143142614)
Publication Date: November 8, 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Personal Memoirs
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Spring/Summer '09 Reading Group ListDrawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious private oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.
Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. Dave has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the author (or coauthor) of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories, including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse. He and his wife, Jennifer Gonnerman, live in Brooklyn.
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