Radio Archive by Tag

Romance

  • In God We Trust.

    489: No Coincidence, No Story! 03.01.2013

    When it comes to love, coincidences tend to loom extra-large. Stephen Lee tells about the time ...Family • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Act Four.

    489: No Coincidence, No Story! 03.01.2013

    More stories of dazzling coincidences: An old boyfriend is conjured in Morocco; a jazz singer ...Death • Fathers • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Best Laid Plans.

    486: Valentine's Day 2013 02.08.2013

    Kurt Braunohler and his girlfriend had been together for thirteen years, and they were only 30. ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • 21 Chump Street.

    486: Valentine's Day 2013 02.08.2013

    A few years ago at three high schools in Palm Beach County, Florida, several young police ...Criminal Justice • Drugs • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Cold Stone Dreamery.

    486: Valentine's Day 2013 02.08.2013

    Ben Loory wrote and tells this story, which begins with a duck falling in love with a rock. (8 ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend.

    486: Valentine's Day 2013 02.08.2013

    A live performance detailing a humiliating love affair. When comedian Mike Birbiglia was in high ...Live Performance • Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    457: What I Did For Love 02.10.2012

    Host Ira Glass speaks with musician Kristy Kruger about the unique way she dealt with a recent ...Heartbreak • Music • Pranks

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Act Two.

    444: Gossip 08.26.2011

    Chicago writer Rebecca Makkai bring us the story of a reality television producer attempting to ...Fiction • Romance • Television

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • What I Didn't Do on My Summer Vacation.

    443: Amusement Park 08.12.2011

    Jonathan Goldstein returns to Wildwood, New Jersey, where he spent one not-fateful summer when ...Jobs/Employment • Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Isn't It Slow-Mantic.

    425: Slow To React 01.21.2011

    In Sean Lewis’ family, there is a legendarily romantic love story. It’s famous in his family ...Family • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Sleeping With The Enemy.

    404: Enemy Camp 2010 04.02.2010

    A short story, "Fatso," by Etgar Keret from his collection "The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be ...Fiction • Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    393: Infidelity 10.30.2009

    Ira talks with Jessica Pressler, who writes the Daily Intel blog for NewYork Magazine, about a ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Let Me Kiss Your Stiff Upper Lip.

    393: Infidelity 10.30.2009

    From England, Ruby Wright has a story of an affair where—even years after it ended—it wasn't ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Italian Job.

    393: Infidelity 10.30.2009

    Ira reviews some infidelity stats from his mother's book on the subject, Not Just Friends. And ...Live Performance • Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • How Did I Get Here?

    393: Infidelity 10.30.2009

    Act two showed us a moment before infidelity occurs. In this act, Dani Shapiro has a story about ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Pants Pants Revelation.

    378: This I Used to Believe 04.17.2009

    Joel and Kate were both working in a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. They both ...Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    374: Somewhere Out There 02.13.2009

    NPR reporter David Kestenbaum tells host Ira Glass about the time, when he was doing graduate ...Romance • Science

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • It’s Not Over Til The Fat Man Sings.

    374: Somewhere Out There 02.13.2009

    When Eric Hayot was 23, he went on an exchange program to China one summer. He took an opera ...Music • Romance • Theater

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend.

    374: Somewhere Out There 02.13.2009

    A live performance detailing a humiliating love affair. When comedian Mike Birbiglia was in high ...Funny • Live Performance • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Love Line.

    371: Scenes From a Mall 12.26.2008

    We meet Russell, 19, the best mobile phone salesman in the mall -- and possibly anywhere. His ...Jobs/Employment • Retail/Commerce • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Lonely Hearts Club Band...Of One.

    364: Going Big 09.26.2008

    Musician David Berkeley has gotten a lot of requests in his life, but none quite like the offer ...Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    349: Valentine's Day 2008 02.15.2008

    Richard Klein of Cornell University explains that the way we view love really began with love ...History • Literature • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Before And After.

    349: Valentine's Day 2008 02.15.2008

    Richard Bausch reads his story "Letter to the Lady of the House" from his book, Selected Stories ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Over-protective Kind.

    349: Valentine's Day 2008 02.15.2008

    Veronica Chater's mother wants to go to a resort in Mexico with a friend. Her father, a former ...Family • Romance • Travel

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Istanbul.

    349: Valentine's Day 2008 02.15.2008

    Ian Brown of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the normal struggle most people experience ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    347: Matchmakers 01.18.2008

    Ira Glass talks to This American Life Producer Jane Feltes about a recent date she was set up ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • A Good Year For Grand Gestures.

    347: Matchmakers 01.18.2008

    Miriam and her husband were development workers in Afghanistan. They'd had a whirlwind romance ...Afghanistan • Development • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    339: Break-Up 08.24.2007

    Host Ira Glass talks with Lauren Waterman, who's in the middle of a break-up right now and ...Heartbreak • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Dr. Phil.

    339: Break-Up 08.24.2007

    In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in break-up songs that she ...Divorce • Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Life Without Leanne.

    314: It's Never Over 06.23.2006

    Writer Larry Doyle on a love that will not die, no matter how dead it is. (7 minutes)Fiction • Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    308: Star-Crossed Love 02.10.2006

    Host Ira Glass talks to Chicago Tribune newspaper columnist Amy Dickinson ("Ask Amy"), the heir ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prisoner Of Love.

    308: Star-Crossed Love 02.10.2006

    Shant Kenderian reads from his memoir 1001 Nights In the Iraqi Army: The True Story of a Chicago ...Iraq • Military • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Diary Of Mrs. Sam Horrigan.

    308: Star-Crossed Love 02.10.2006

    Sixteen-year-old Catalina Puente, one of WNYC's Radio Rookies, gets caught up in a complete and ...Childhood • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • So A Squirrel And A Chipmunk Walk Into A Bar.

    308: Star-Crossed Love 02.10.2006

    David Sedaris reads his new fable about a squirrel, a chipmunk, and a love that could never be. ...Animals • Fiction • Funny

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    288: Not What I Meant 05.06.2005

    Host Ira Glass talks to film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader about an anonymous ...Romance • Writing

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • And I Love Her.

    274: Enemy Camp '04 10.08.2004

    "Fatso," a short story by Etgar Keret from his collection The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God. ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Are You A Man Or A Mouse?

    269: Someone to Watch Over Me 07.16.2004

    Aimee Bender reads her story "The Rememberer," about a woman whose lover is undergoing reverse ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Inside The Romance Industry.

    247: What Is This Thing? 09.19.2003

    Robin Epstein visits people who define this thing called love—for a living. She attends the ...Romance • Writing

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • View From The Other Half.

    247: What Is This Thing? 09.19.2003

    An act named after two TV shows, one where women sit around and talk, the other where men sit ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • A Love Story.

    247: What Is This Thing? 09.19.2003

    Sarah Vowell tells "The Greatest Love Story of the 20th Century," Johnny Cash and June Carter ...Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Bolt Of Lightning, Pro And Con.

    244: MacGyver 08.15.2003

    Chuck Klosterman talks about the time he MacGyvered his way out of one of the worst situations a ...Holidays • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • A Girl's Guide To Mending The Unmendable.

    244: MacGyver 08.15.2003

    Susan Burton tells the story of how she used a clever scheme to get over a broken heart. (17 ...Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • And I Love Her.

    242: Enemy Camp 07.18.2003

    A short story, "Fatso," by Etgar Keret. A woman reveals to her boyfriend that she's not always ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    238: Lost in Translation 05.30.2003

    Host Ira Glass talks with producer Alex Blumberg about going on a date with a woman from Russia. ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Heart Is A Lonely Junta.

    237: Regime Change 04.18.2003

    Jeffrey Brown wrote a comic novel called Clumsy, a beautiful and intimate account of his ...Romance • Writing

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    231: Time to Save the World 02.07.2003

    Host Ira Glass talks with Michael Beaumier, who runs the personals section of the Chicago ...Journalism • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    228: You Are So Beautiful…To Me 01.03.2003

    Host Ira Glass explains how you can get away with anything if you claim you did it for love. (3 ...Romance • Television

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • On The Border Between Good And Bad.

    228: You Are So Beautiful…To Me 01.03.2003

    Another story of someone using the word love as they try to make sense of things. Russell Banks ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Personal Ads.

    223: Classifieds 10.11.2002

    "Joyce, I don't need another Housekeeper." Producer Jonathan Goldstein talks with the man who ...Journalism • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Lie That Binds.

    221: Fake I.D. 09.20.2002

    A story from David Sedaris about how the movie The End of the Affair almost ended his ...Film/Film Making • Literature • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Mr. Fun.

    212: The Other Man 05.10.2002

    Jonathan Goldstein and Heather O'Neill tell the true story of what happens when a person tries ...Children • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    203: Recordings for Someone 01.11.2002

    We hear a tape that a man named David Cossin made for a woman in Italy, who he'd met during a ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Love Story.

    203: Recordings for Someone 01.11.2002

    We hear more of David Cossin's tapes. He made over a dozen for the woman in Italy. And we hear ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Just Be Yourself.

    198: How to Win Friends and Influence People 11.02.2001

    Producer Jonathan Goldstein with a story about what it's like to date Lois Lane when she's on ...Fiction • Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • You Call That Love?

    197: Before It Had A Name 10.26.2001

    There is that moment when you're falling for someone, before either of you says the word ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Game Ain't Over Til The Fatso Man Sings.

    188: Kid Logic 06.22.2001

    Howie Chackowicz tried a risky combination when he was little, kid logic with puppy love. He ...Childhood • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • "thou Shalt Worship No Other Trousers Before Me."

    185: Golden Calf 05.25.2001

    If you're in thrall to a pair of pants, is that such a bad thing? Ira talks to Kate—who invested ...Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • What We Cringe About When We Cringe About Love.

    182: Cringe 04.13.2001

    Cringing means literally "to shrink from something dangerous or painful." So what could be more ...Religion • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Birthday Present.

    174: Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones 12.29.2000

    On a commemorative day, it can be hard to feel a real sense of the past and of how time has ...Fiction • Holidays • Live Performance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.

    169: Pursuit of Happiness 09.29.2000

    Every year, the Emerald Society, an association of Irish Chicago police officers, flies in ...Alcohol • City • Food/Drinks/Cooking

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    154: In Dog We Trust 03.10.2000

    Heather and her girlfriend lived with a cat named Sid. The girlfriend showed all sorts of ...Animals • Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    152: Crush 02.11.2000

    A high school student explains the intricacies of a four-year crush, and declares that having a ...Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Kiss.

    152: Crush 02.11.2000

    So what if you held onto a high-school crush? Under what conditions would it never go away? ...Childhood • Death • Family

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • How A Bill Becomes — A President.

    152: Crush 02.11.2000

    Bill Bradley press secretary Julia Rothwax explains how a political crush works. This is a crush ...Politics • Presidents • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One April Morning.

    152: Crush 02.11.2000

    As pure of a depiction of unadulterated crush feeling as can be imagined—from writer Haruki ...Fiction • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Fire And Ice Cream.

    149: Bedside Diplomacy 01.14.2000

    When a nurse asks a 14-year-old burn victim out for ice cream, is it a date? Brent Runyon tells ...Health Care/Medicine • Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • If This Sleigh Is A-rockin', Don't Come A-knockin'.

    148: The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit 12.24.1999

    Sarah Vowell explains why so many popular songs portray Santa as a ladies man. (8 minutes)Holidays • Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Your Name Is Ointment Poured Forth.

    147: A Teenager's Guide to God 12.17.1999

    One great thing about staying in a camp of 130 other Christians is the ...Religion • Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Real Love.

    138: The Real Thing 08.27.1999

    There's The Real Thing when it comes to your idea of what job you want, what house you want, ...Funny • Live Performance • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Same Time Next Year.

    134: We Didn't 07.09.1999

    Writer/Comedian Amanda Marks shares the story of a couple that didn't fall in love, didn't get ...City • Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    129: Advice 05.14.1999

    When Adam and Jamie were kids, Jamie would always ask for Adam's advice, but he didn't want to ...Childhood • Friendship • Journalism

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Love.

    128: Four Corners 04.30.1999

    Scott Richer and Julie Riggs of Louisville, Kentucky, were supposed to have their first kiss at ...Friendship • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • How To Avoid The Difficulty Of Living With Someone.

    123: High Cost of Living 02.26.1999

    When adults talk babytalk to each other, it is precisely to avoid having real conversations and ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Meet The Ball And Chain.

    122: Valentine's Day '99 02.12.1999

    When Anne Staggs started to fall for an inmate named Charles in the Texas prison system, she was ...Criminal Justice • Jobs/Employment • Murder

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Mucho Corazon.

    122: Valentine's Day '99 02.12.1999

    A man in Amsterdam and a woman in Cuba fall in love, even though their governments don't want ...Government • Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Who Deserves What.

    122: Valentine's Day '99 02.12.1999

    The story of The Arabian Nights is actually 350 or 400 stories, depending on how you count them. ...Literature • Romance • Theater

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    120: Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be 01.22.1999

    Viola disguises herself as a man, takes a job working for this guy with whom she promptly falls ...Romance • Theater

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Bad Sex With Bud Kemp.

    115: First Day 11.13.1998

    Los Angeles writer Sandra Tsing Loh on the first day of a relationship. A failing relationship. ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    106: Father's Day '98 06.19.1998

    We ask 18-year-old Chana Wiliford and her father in Texas if they'd be willing to have a ...Fathers • Holidays • Marriage

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Self-made Wacky.

    97: Death to Wacky 03.20.1998

    Ira talks with Maria, who took out a personals ad in the Chicago Reader advertising herself as ...Romance • Writing

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    95: Monogamy 03.06.1998

    In the early stages of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, there was a period when one of the questions ...Marriage • Politics • Presidents

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Scientific Experiment.

    95: Monogamy 03.06.1998

    Chris and Sylvere, and how they tried to contain a marriage-threatening crush, and how difficult ...Marriage • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Love And Happiness.

    95: Monogamy 03.06.1998

    Writer and nationally syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage explains what actually happens in ...Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Istanbul.

    95: Monogamy 03.06.1998

    Ian Brown of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the normal struggle most people experience ...Marriage • Neighbors/Neighborhoods • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • How To Date A Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, Or Halfie.

    94: How To 02.27.1998

    A how-to by Junot Diaz, from his book Drown. (11 minutes) Read the content advisory we sent out ...Fiction • Race • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    93: Valentine's Day '98 02.13.1998

    Richard Klein of Cornell University explains that the way we view love really began with love ...History • Poetry • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • I Met Him In The Yogurt Store, But Now He's Not My Leader Of The Pack.

    93: Valentine's Day '98 02.13.1998

    Linda Howard and Richard Bloom, in Boca Raton Florida, had been married years when she started ...Funny • Marriage • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Feeling You Want, And The Feeling You Get.

    91: Escape the Box 01.30.1998

    David Cale's Lillian. Mild sexual content in this story.See the special advisory we had to send ...Live Performance • Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    90: Telephone 01.16.1998

    Host Ira Glass explains why some old answering machine messages from a decade ago have such ...History • Politics • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    88: Numbers 01.02.1998

    When she began working as a temp secretary in San Francisco, learning the computers, wasting ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Corporate Culture.

    88: Numbers 01.02.1998

    D. Travers Scott and his boyfriend spent six months gathering data on their own relationship and ...Romance • Science

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Break It Down.

    88: Numbers 01.02.1998

    A man tries to calculate what love costs. From Lydia Davis's book Break It Down, read by actor ...Fiction • Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • My Crap Life.

    83: One of Us 11.14.1997

    Writer Tim Melley. (23 minutes)Childhood • Education • Family

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • How Bad Is This Relationship?

    78: How Bad Is Bad? 10.03.1997

    The people of Chicago speak out. (5 minutes)Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • When Worlds Collide.

    74: Conventions 08.29.1997

    John Perry Barlow, a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and former rancher and ...Business • Jobs/Employment • Music

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Iron Man.

    71: Defying Sickness 08.01.1997

    Mark O'Brien is a writer in California, who lives most of each day in an iron lung, thanks to a ...Film/Film Making • Health Care/Medicine • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    70: Other People's Mail 07.25.1997

    Pete found a bag of maybe a hundred letters in a dumpster and found himself completely wrapped ...Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Act One.

    64: Summer 05.23.1997

    Ron Carlson's short story.Fiction • Jobs/Employment • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Life Without Leanne.

    63: One Thing 05.09.1997

    A story by Larry Doyle. (10 minutes)Radio • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • How you gonna keep em down on the farm?

    58: Small Towns 04.04.1997

    Singles in Agriculture. By reporter Liz Weil and Alix Spiegel. (25 minutes)Jobs/Employment • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    53: Valentine's Day '97 02.07.1997

    Ira reads from In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. (7 minutes)Fathers • Film/Film Making • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Men My Mother Dated.

    53: Valentine's Day '97 02.07.1997

    Brett Leveridge reads from his column for Might magazine, which he turned into the book Men My ...Mothers • Parents • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Mom, Dad & Bats

    53: Valentine's Day '97 02.07.1997

    A story by Bia Lowe. (12 minutes) Animals • Childhood • Parents

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • It's Not the Heat.

    53: Valentine's Day '97 02.07.1997

    Writer Julie Showalter on her parents' romance. More Men My Mother Dated stories from Brett ...Family • Parents • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Parent And Child.

    53: Valentine's Day '97 02.07.1997

    Reporter Scott Carrier and his eleven-year-old daughter Jesse. Scott wrote Running After ...Children • Fathers • Parenting

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    52: Edge of Sanity 01.31.1997

    Story of a romance that began in a mental hospital. Sometimes, the line between crazy and not ...Mental Health • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • The Other Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name.

    46: Sissies 12.13.1996

    Seattle writer and syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage, on how there's a stigma against sissies ...Childhood • Romance • Sexuality

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Doing A Personal Act For Money.

    45: Media Fringe 12.06.1996

    Sarah Vowell on the joy of making mix tapes of your favorite songs to send to loved ones. She ...Jobs/Employment • Music • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Carmen Becomes Faust.

    43: Faustian Bargains 11.22.1996

    Carmen Delzell on a deal she made with the devil when she turned 30. (14 minutes)Housing • Jobs/Employment • Personal Finance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • When You're In Love, The Whole World Is Jewish.

    42: Get Over It! 11.15.1996

    Host Ira Glass talks about the drama of trying to be "just friends" with an ex-girlfriend. The ...Friendship • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Found Tape.

    40: Lessons 11.01.1996

    Excerpts from lessons found on old record, especially a Helen Gurley Brown disc called How to ...Funny • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    24: Teenaged Girls 05.24.1996

    Kara instructs some of her male friends on the proper ways to treat a girl (5 minutes).Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Suburban Girl.

    24: Teenaged Girls 05.24.1996

    Chicago writer/musician Rennie Sparks, a member of the independent band The Handsome Family, ...Family • Friendship • Music

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Good Girl.

    24: Teenaged Girls 05.24.1996

    Producer/sound artist Gregory Whitehead presents his piece "This Mindless Thing." (7 minutes) Romance • Teenagers

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Chicago, In The 1960s.

    14: Accidental Documentaries 02.21.1996

    Nora Moreno with tapes of her father, a pioneer in Spanish-language broadcasting in America. Her ...Fathers • Parents • Poetry

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Prologue.

    13: Love 02.07.1996

    Host Ira Glass explores a self-help cassette tape that promises to bring the listener peace ...Holidays • Romance

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels

  • Yearning.

    13: Love 02.07.1996

    Artist Julie Laffin talks about the inspiration for her "kissing projects." Jessica Yu's film ...Art • Film/Film Making • Poetry

    Embed

    Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this story into your web page or blog.

    pixels