Act Two: The Real Decoy
Producer Stephanie Foo talks to veteran Michael Pitre, who had to change the way he talked about his experiences in the military after he realized the effect it was having on people.
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Act One: You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline
There are young single men and women at the camps, and there’s some flirting for sure. But usually it doesn’t seem to go very far.
Prologue
Host Ira Glass interviews author Alain de Botton about why so many of us choose the wrong spouses. Botton is the author of the new novel The Course of Love.
Act Five: An Immodest Proposal
We close the show with one more excerpt from Lindy West’s book, Shrill.
Act One
Lori Gottlieb's story from the prologue continues. One complication led to another and before long, the writer seemed to be lying to her.
Prologue
Ira talks to Rachel Rosenthal, who spent years trying to figure out who had stolen her identity. She was closing bank account after bank account, getting more and more paranoid, until she realized she knew exactly who the thief was.