Michael Lewis continues readings from his diaries of Morry Taylor's Presidential campaign.

Sandra's father decides, at age 70, to take a Chinese wife.

Dael Orlandersmith's funny, moving story from her Obie-award winning show Beauty's Daughters. Though she's an African-American woman, she transforms herself in this story into a loudmouthed Italian guy. At a wedding, this character meets a woman who reminds him of who he was before he got married and had kids: a guy who loved jazz, a different guy than he is now.

Gang Girl, on a body they thought was fake that turned out to be real.

Julie Showalter, on a costume she wore as a kid.

Webmaster and Beverly Hills 90210 expert Danny Drennan on the convention. Danny runs the site Inquisitor Mediarama.

A story by Lauren Slater about getting obsessive compulsive disorder.

Host Ira Glass explores a self-help cassette tape that promises to bring the listener peace about being single. The only problem is that it achieves this by having you envision your perfect romantic partner.

Writer Sandra Tsing Loh on how she staged stunts to get press attention. She was wildly successful, featured in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, People Magazine, CNN, and in a Tonight Show monologue.

Host Ira Glass follows a delegation to find out what people actually do at a convention.

An excerpt from Spalding Gray's monologue It's a Slippery Slope. Gray has been called "America's premiere storyteller." His monologue Swimming To Cambodia was made into a feature film.

David Rakoff tells about his experience playing Sigmund Freud in the window of upscale Barney's department store in Manhattan. For Christmas. This was the first of dozens of appearances on our show by David Rakoff, who died in 2012.

Writer Quincy Troupe talks about how, as a boy, he idolized Miles Davis, and how, as a man, he actually became one of Davis's closest friends. And how his picture of the man changed.

This American Life contributor Paul Tough visits Catherine Chalmers. She raises small animals and insects in her apartment, feeds them to each other, and photographs them eating each other.

Playwright and contributor Beau O'Reilly talks about a more typical relationship between restaurant and customer.

Scott Carrier's Haiku stories. Scott is the author of Running After Antelope.

Producer/sound artist Gregory Whitehead presents his piece "This Mindless Thing." (7 minutes)

Original fiction by Ira Sher about a group of children who find a man trapped in a well but decide not to get him any help.

Samantha Martin trains raccoons to play basketball and rats to bowl. She says that what we want from animals is for them to imitate humans.

Susan Bergman returns to read an excerpt from her book.

One of the boys from the book There Are No Children Here goes back to his old neighborhood across from the Convention site.

Writer David Sedaris tells of the giddiness he felt when he purchased a taxidermy's turkey head— attached to its foot.

Ira talks about the adage "Comedy equals tragedy plus time." Usually it's true, he says, though today's show is devoted to someone who decided to go on stage the same week she was experiencing some horrible things — and talk about those things.