Sandra Loh

Contributors List
Sandra is a writer and performer who does regular commentaries on KPCC and on various public radio shows. She's also published several books and is a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly.

4: Vacations

Stories about vacations gone awry—or perhaps vacations that never should have happened.

7: Quitting

Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards.

22: Adult Children

Stories of the difficult relationships between parents and their grown children, including two long stories from Sandra Tsing Loh about her father.

26: Father's Day '96

Ira's own father Barry Glass co-hosts this special father's day edition of the show.

45: Media Fringe

Four stories about people struggling at the fringes of our nation's media/music/infotainment industry.

62: Something for Nothing

Stories of people trying to get rich quick or otherwise make something for nothing. As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing. You always pay a price.

89: Sibling Rivalry

Stories about people who are destined to fight: brothers and sisters.

115: First Day

Stories of the first day on the job, the first day in a relationship, the first day in school. On the first day, any first day, we're expected to live by the rules and customs of the culture we're entering, but we don't know those rules...

133: Sales

Consider for a moment all the art forms that began in America: jazz, the blues, musical theater, rock n' roll, phonograph recordings, television, motion pictures, video games. But the art form in which America leads the world—more than any...

138: The Real Thing

Stories of people drawn to some idea, some picture, some "thing" that they just want to be. How some people imitate this "thing" innocently, some less innocently, and how easy it is to slip from one to the other.