Paul Tough
Contributors List
Paul and his friend Jack Hitt were the two people Ira first turned to for help in creating This American Life. Paul was the show's editor for a while. He now writes for the New York Times Magazine and did a book about the Harlem Children’s Zone.
12: Animals
Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
49: Animals
Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
59: Fire
Stories about people who are not afraid of fire, though perhaps they should be.
63: One Thing
People whose lives are organized around one thing.
65: Who's Canadian?
Notes and stories about the Canadians among us. Are they in fact any different from red-blooded Americans? They claim they're not. Skeptical Americans put their position to the test.
70: Other People's Mail
When you read other people's mail, you can't help but try to fill in between the lines. You try to decipher the stories of the people who wrote the letters. We hear four stories of people who read other people's mail, and what happens to...
75: Kindness of Strangers
Stories of the kindness of strangers and where it leads. Also, the unkindness of strangers and where that can lead. All of today's stories take place in the city most people think of as the least kind city in America: New York.
289: Go Ask Your Father
In this show, sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father. The answers aren't always what they hope for.
364: Going Big
Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.
