The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Framing these intimate conversations from across the country is an interview between StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and his nine-year-old nephew, Benji, animated in the inimitable style of The Rauch Brothers.

David Avram "Dave" Isay (born December 5, 1965) is an American radio producer and founder of Sound Portraits Productions. He is also the founder of StoryCorps, an ongoing oral history project. He is the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including six Peabody Awards and a MacArthur Genius Fellowship.

10, teacher’s guide to listening is an act of love. the Library of Congress, alongside of one of the most important records of American his-tory-2,300 interviews of former slaves who were interviewed in the mid-1930s as part of the WPA’s Federal Writers Project. You can take the conversation into the realm of the personal by asking students if they’ve had a meaningful conversation with anyone over 30 minutes in length in the past month.

Dave Isay's vision of collecting the everyday stories of Americans is so simple and yet so powerful. Listening Is an Act of Love will make you laugh, cry and think. These stories come from the souls of individual Americans. Collectively, they are who we are as a people. You cannot read this book without feeling proud of your country. Senator Bill Bradley. Dave Isay's Listening Is an Act of Love is a gift. I savored these stories.

DAVE ISAY: Well, our first book, Listening Is an Act of Love, came out a couple weeks ago, and these are fifty of the stories from our first 10,000 interviews. We’ve now done about 15,000 with about 28,000 participants. Most people come in pairs. You tell the story of coyotes. Talk a little about that.

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David Isay is the founder of StoryCorps. 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, and a United States Artists Fellowship. Callings: A Celebration of Lives of Purpose and Passion. com User, November 12, 2007. Listening Is an Act of Love" is truly a book for everyone; I believe it is central to understanding what compassion is all about. By extension, it is clear to me that it is not just about American family and love relationships, but also about the entire human family.

StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps? collection, creating a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives?to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage, and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds. To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or stereotype

And thanks for staying inside of us. ― Dave Isay, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. They didn't see the world, but they saw their world-which maybe is better than seeing the world. Dave Isay, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. All Quotes Quotes By Dave Isay.

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay at the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central Terminal. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay at the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central Terminal. Excerpts: 'Listening Is an Act of Love'. Read the stories of William Jacobs and Mary Caplan. Excerpted from Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project.