Finding Your Calling with StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay, Translating the Elusive Elena Ferrante

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 22, 2016

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares stories from people who do what they love in Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, and we'll hear from you! A new film looks at how the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, has damaged the environment six years later. Ann Goldstein, the translator who brought Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels to English readers, stops by the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club to answer your questions.

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