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Contributor Samuel James thought he knew what happened to his mother.

In the 1920s, at the height of the Spiritualism movement, a friendship blossomed between two men with opposing views on the topic: Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Amy Bloom tells the story of her husband, Brian, getting Alzheimer's and wanting assisted suicide.

Writer Tobias Wolff reads his story "Bullet in the Brain" from his collection of stories The Night in Question, about a bank robbery and a man who's shot, and what he thinks about before he dies.