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COVER STORY
Love
Kurt Andersen and Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni
Morrison talk about loves of various kinds-for people, things and ideas.
 Soaring
The story begins in a poetry class at an adult learning
center on Chicago's North Side. The teacher, Susan House, usually keeps
things fairly subdued. But one day, Sifredo Torres walks in. He's a former
gang member working toward his GED. When his eyes meet those of Diana
Giraldo, sparks fly. Poems are written. But the critics react coolly.
Produced by Amy Dorn and Alex Kotlowitz.
Go to the Journal of Ordinary Thought site
 Mind
Field
In Brownsville, Tennessee, there's an enormous monument
of structural steel teetering out up of the loam. It's called the Mind
Field, and it's the life's work of an artist named Billy Tripp. Producer
Hal Humphreys visited the site with Tripp and learned about the man who
inspired it: Tripp's father.
Go to the Brownsville, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce
site
Love
Song
In a show about love, there
are millions of love songs to choose from. Studio 360 asked two musicians
to give us one more. Guitarist Ben Monder and singer Theo Bleckmann are
young jazz masters. They picked an ancient text from Rumi, the 13th century
Persian mystic who has improbably become one of the best-known poets in
America. Produced by Ave Carrillo.
Go to Ben Monder's website
Go to Theo Bleckmann's website
 Couples
Three couples--Tom and Ruth Kassoy, Kate and Mike
McCabe, and Lad and Lois Shurely-talk about romance. Produced by Barrett
Golding.
Go to the Hearing Voices site
SPECIAL GUEST
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is the author of eight novels, including
Beloved and Song of Solomon, and her latest, Love. Her children's books
include The Book of Mean People and Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse?
She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer
Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature, and she serves as Robert F.
Goheen Professor at Princeton University.
Read more about Toni Morrison's Love
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