Producer Nancy Updike with Ki Kim, who's not afraid of walking on coals. But maybe he should have been.

Writer Julie Showalter on her parents' romance.

Writer Sarah Vowell goes to Rock-n-Roll Fantasy Camp in Miami Beach.

Ron Carlson's short story.

Sandy Tolan interviewed Susan's friends and family to make an unusual and powerful documentary about who she was and about the world she inhabited.

Short fiction by George Saunders.

Alix Spiegel in Colorado Springs, where a massive prayer project is underway to pray for every person, business, and school. When she arrives, she finds the Christians speak a kind of Christian jargon she does not understand.