Michael Ventura, who grew up Sicilian in New York, says that as a kid he thought Sinatra was in his family. His book The Death of Frank Sinatra is not really about Sinatra.

This American Life producer Nancy Updike on a family where the father was one kind of sissy and the son was another kind, and how the family was destroyed despite the fact that no one wanted it to be.

Alix Spiegel tells the story of her friend Jayna, who made a Faustian bargain at 11 years old.

A first-grader explains to host Ira Glass how bullies become bullies. His explanation: They read a book on how to be a bully.