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COVER STORY
Reading
At a time when half of all Americans don't buy a single
book a year, Kurt Andersen and Sara Nelson talk about cultivating a passion
for reading.
 What
Do You Love to Read? Part I
Studio 360 hears from patrons outside of the Queens
Public Library-it circulates 16.8 million books a year, more than any
other library in the country. Produced by Sarah Nobles and Rob Weisberg.
Go to the Queens Public Library site
What
Do You Love to Read? Part II
Produced by Sarah Nobles and Rob Weisberg.
 Toni
Morrison
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the Nobel Prize and
the Pulitzer, and sold millions of copies of her books such as Beloved,
Paradise, and Song of Solomon. Recently she began writing books for children,
and has just completed six traditional fables she adapted with her son
Slade. Morrison says she didn't read many kids books herself when she
was young. Produced by Peter Clowney and Leital Molad.
Go
to a page featuring Toni Morrison's new children's book
Go
to NPR's page about children's literature
Toni
Morrison
Listen to the entire Toni Morrison interview with
Studio 360’s Peter Clowney.
 Don
Quixote
Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote" in 1605 as
a satire of the adventure tales of his day. Still popular 400 years later,
Don Quixote is also a whimsical work of literary criticism as much as
an adventure story. Matthew Schuerman has a look at the epic tale and
some of the secrets behind its staying power.
Go
to the Cervantes Project website
Go
to the Don Quixote website at John's Hopkins University
See
the Don Quixote exhibit at the Prado museum in Madrid
Go
to the Hispanic Society website
What
Do You Love to Read? Part III
Produced by Sarah Nobles and Rob Weisberg.
 Hmong
Literature
Today, St. Paul Minnesota is home to more Hmong people
than any other city in the world. Many fled there from Laos and Cambodia
after the Vietnam War. Until 50 years ago, the Hmong, originally scattered
across Southeast Asia, had no written language at all. Steve Nelson of
Minnesota Public Radio finds that St. Paul has become the center of an
emerging group of Hmong writers who are working in English and for the
first time, in their own language.
Go
to a bio of Dr. Yang Dao
Go
to an anthology of Hmong writing
SPECIAL GUEST
Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson is a senior contributing editor to Glamour,
publishing columnist for the New York Observer, and a veteran book reviewer.
Her memoir of a year of reading, So Many Books, So Little Time, will be
published in October.
Read
a review of Sara Nelson's book
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Design
for the Real World
The pool table. Graphic designer Ken Carbone
finds elegance and history in the green felt field of battle. Produced
by Jocelyn Gonzales.
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