7: Quitting

7: Quitting

Dec 29, 1995

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

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Prologue
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Evan Harris was entrenched in her life, stalled and going nowhere both personally and professionally. A silly conversation with a co-worker about the letter "Q" led her to start a magazine called Quitter Quarterly. That one conversation changed her life completely. (22 minutes)
Jobs/Employment • Writing
- Ira Glass
Song: "Don't Fence Me In", Ella Fitzgerald
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Act One
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A story about quitting by Sandra Tsing Loh. (10 minutes)
Animals • Fiction • Music
- Sandra Loh
Song: "Do Something Different (Disappear)", Brave Combo
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Act Two
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Ira explores the question of when it's time to quit a relationship through rare recordings of bickering between roommates—recorded by the next-door neighbors. (9 minutes)
Housing
- Ira Glass
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Act Three
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Lisa Buscani reads a two-part story about not being able to quit something or someone. The piece was written for This American Life. (13 minutes)
Fiction • Jobs/Employment • Music
- Lisa Buscani
Song: "The Calendar Song", Robert Metrick
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Dwight Okita reads the poem "Farewell Samba" from his book Crossing with the Light.

Ira Glass reads Philip Larkin's poem "Poetry of Departures." (3 minutes)
Poetry
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