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The Timeless Quest to Understand Love: Diane Ackerma’s Masterpiece

Bill Thompson

Women and men of all ages and all cultures and all backgrounds in all societies have tried for all time to define love.

… and to study and deconstruct and analyze love.

Great artists, writers, poets, musicians, playwrights, and authors have all had their say.

And in 1994, acclaimed author poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman had hers.

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She followed up her best-selling book A Natural History of The Senses with a book called A Natural History of Love.

But that was much more than just a literary effort, as Ackerman brought together science and religion and culture.

And what did she conclude? You’re about to hear it. So here now, from 1994, Diane Ackerman.

Diane Ackerman is 76 now. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

A Valentine’s Day Special: Carl Reiner’s ‘All Kinds of Love

Bill Thompson
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Happy Valentine’s Day!

It’s a day of romance, relationships, maybe even marriage, but most especially it’s a day of love. All kinds of love.

In fact, All Kinds of Love was the title of actor writer Carl Reiner’s 1993 novel. It featured a delightful cast of characters dealing with a variety of romantic situations, with a good deal of comedy thrown in, as we would expect no less from the man who created TV’s iconic Dick Van Dyke show.

So here now, from 1993, Carl Reiner.

Carl Reiner was 98 when he died in 2020.

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Stephenie Meyer

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When I was a kid, all my friends and I were into The Twilight Zone, the Rod Serling TV series.

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But in the later 2000s, another “twilight” captured the world’s imagination: the “Twilight” series of novels by Stephenie Meyer.

Four, in all, chronicling the stories of teenager Bella, vampire Edward. and werewolf Jacob.

The third book in the series, “Eclipse,” was published in 2007. And that’s when I met the author — who, as you’ll hear, was still getting accustomed to the fact she had become more popular, book-sales-wise, than J.K. Rowling.

Here now, from 2007, Stephenie Meyer.

Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” books have been turned into popular movies. And her books continue to sell tens of millions of copies worldwide.