Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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.

Shalom Auslander reads his true story, "The Blessing Bee." It's about the time when, as a third-grader at an Orthodox Jewish school, Shalom saw his chance to both make his mom proud, and push his drunken father out of the picture.

In big families, there's often one kid who always gets blamed when something goes wrong.

A short story about an orthodox Jewish man who dies on the operating table and goes to heaven.