Kurt Andersen and Toni Morrison, one of the most acclaimed novelists of our age, talk about her new book Love, and they explore how that deep emotion shapes our lives and our creativity. Two poetry students put romance into every single thing they write (with protest from their teacher);a Tennessee man proves his devotion to his father in welded steel; and two rising stars of the New York music scene perform a brand-new love song to an ancient text by Rumi.
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