英语书籍：Listening Is An Act Of Love（一）

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Nonfiction: Listening Is An Act Of Love
Author: Dave Isay, Editor

StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an
important story to tell. Since 2003 this remarkable
project has been collecting the stories of everyday
Americans and preserving them for future generations. In
New York City and in mobile recording booths traveling the
country--from small towns to big cities, at Native
American reservations and army posts--StoryCorps is
collecting the memories of Americans of all ages and from
all backgrounds and walks of life. The project represents
a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity,
capturing for posterity the stories that define us and
bind us together.

In "Listening Is an Act of Love," StoryCorps founder and
legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the
most remarkable stories from the already vast collection
and arranges them thematically into 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 caricature. Above all, this book honors
the gift each StoryCorps participant has made from the raw
material of his or her life to the Americans who will come
after. We "are" our history, individually and
collectively, and "Listening Is an Act of Love" touchingly
reminds us of this powerful truth.






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Nonfiction: Listening Is An Act Of Love
A Celebration of American Life
from the StoryCorps Project
Author: Dave Isay, Editor
Publisher : The Penguin Press
a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
ISBN: 9781594201400
LISTENING (Part 1 of 5)
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INTRODUCTION

StoryCorps is built on a few basic ideas: That our stories--the
stories of everyday people--are as interesting and important as the
celebrity stories we're bombarded with by the media every minute of
the day.

That if we take the time to listen, we'll find wisdom, wonder, and
poetry in the lives and stories of the people all around us.

That we all want to know our lives have mattered and we won't ever
be forgotten.

That listening is an act of love.

Participating in StoryCorps is a simple process. First, you make an
appointment to visit one of our recording booths. Bring anyone you
choose--your grandmother, your dad, your sister, your best friend,
the waitress at the local diner whose story you've always been
curious about. A trained StoryCorps facilitator will greet you, take
you into the booth, and shut the door.

Inside, the booth is completely silent. The lights are low. The room
is cozy. You sit at a small table across from, let's say, your
grandmother, looking into her eyes. There's a microphone in front
of each of you. The facilitator sits down in front of an audio
console and presses "Record." You begin to ask your questions:

"What are the most important lessons you've learned in life?"

"What did your mother sing to you when you were a baby?"

"How do you want to be remembered?"

At the end of forty minutes, two broadcast-quality CDs have been
created. One goes home with you. A second becomes part of an
archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
so that your great-great-grandchildren will someday be able to
listen to the voices of you and your grandmother. Excerpts of
interviews are broadcast each Friday on NPR's Morning Edition.

StoryCorps launched on October 23, 2003, in New York's Grand Central
Terminal. The great oral historian Studs Terkel, who was ninety-one
at the time, flew in from Chicago to cut the ribbon. "Today we shall
begin celebrating the lives of the uncelebrated!" he proclaimed.
"We're in Grand Central Station. We know there was an architect, but
who hung the iron? Who were the brick masons? Who swept the floors?
These are the noncelebrated people of our country. In this booth the
noncelebrated will speak of their lives. It might be a grandmother
speaking to a grandchild. It might be a kid talking to his uncle. It
might be a neighbor talking to a neighbor. And suddenly they will
realize that they are the ones who have built this country!"

Since that day we've added another permanent booth at Ground Zero
and launched three mobile recording studios that travel the country
year-round gathering stories. Each session represents an act of love
and respect: forty minutes set aside to ask important questions and
listen closely to the answers. The interviews honor our families,
friends, and elders: the ordinary people we find all around us who,
in their day-to-day acts of kindness, courage, and humanity, embody
the true spirit of our nation.

StoryCorps is a project about permanence in an ever more disposable
society. It reminds us of what's really important in the midst of
all of life's distractions. It encourages us to connect despite
endless temptations to detach and disengage.

On the following pages are forty-nine stories selected from the ten
thousand interviews we've recorded to date. We consider each
StoryCorps session sacred, and we place great value on every story
that's been recorded as part of the project. It is a joy and an
honor for all of us at StoryCorps to do this work, and it's a
privilege to share these stories with you.


AUTHOR'S NOTE

The following stories were edited from trans of forty-minute
StoryCorps interviews. We aimed to distill these stories without
altering the tone or meaning of the original sessions. Words and
phrases that read well are not always the best spoken moments, and
the reverse is also the case. As a result, the phrasings of the same
story in print and in audio may vary slightly.

We did not use ellipses to indicate omitted text; at times tense and
usage were changed for clarity. Each story was fact-checked.
Participants gave permission for edited versions of their interviews
to be published in this book. A few participants requested that
their ages not be included, and we honored that request.

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