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Discussion Questions

Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project

1. Why do our stories matter?

2. Has anyone in the group done a StoryCorps interview? Interviewed members of their family or their friends? What was their experience? Did they learn anything that surprised them?

3. If you could interview anyone, whom would you choose?

4. What questions would you most want to ask him or her?

5. What story would you like to tell?

6. In what ways will being better listeners change the world around us?

7. What important lessons have you learned in your life?

8. What does your earliest memory say about who you are? Your most precious memory?

9. Why do we—or do we—care more about celebrity stories than our own?

 

Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
by Dave Isay

  • Publication Date: October 28, 2008
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • ISBN-10: 0143114344
  • ISBN-13: 9780143114345