David Isay tells about his new compilation in print, Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project in American history, has collected the memories of more than 20,000 people from all 50 states and every imaginable walk of life, background, identity group, age and state of mind. Isay is the StoryCorps founder and president. His radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody Awards. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship and an Edward R. Murrow Award. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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