The intersection of Christmas and retail, including David Sedaris's "Santaland Diaries."
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The intersection of Christmas and retail, including David Sedaris's "Santaland Diaries."
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.
People struggling at the fringes of our nation's infotainment industry.
Stories about turkeys, chickens, ducks, and fowl of all kinds.
Trying to forget the past and move on.
Spalding Gray on finding the zen of skiing.
Civil War reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle, and other re-created worlds that thrive all across America.
Scott Carrier got a job interviewing schizophrenics. After awhile, he began to wonder if he was a schizophrenic himself.
We took out advertisements in Chicago inviting people to share letters they've received, sent, or found.
Unusual stories about day-to-day life at the Republican Convention.
Stories of people whose lives are transformed by music.
What happens when a little idea starts to control you.
Unusual perspectives on the presumptive Republican nominee.
David Sedaris recalls the days when his mother and sister played armchair detective.
A story of youthful backstabbing by David Sedaris.
Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show.
Stories of the people who fall for a life in the theater.
Stories of the difficult relationships between parents and their grown children.
Stories of admiring someone from afar, and trying to get closer to them.
A girl who adored her father tries to figure out what to think after he takes some of her college money and lies to her about it.
Jack Hitt stumbles onto an epic story of the Old South and changing cultural norms in America.
Stories made from old recordings found in attics and thrift stores.
The animalness of animals, and the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
A friendship between two young boys that was destroyed through the manipulative acts of one of them.
People living their lives, just like the rest of us. Plus an extra life.
Julia Sweeney and her brother found out they each had cancer six months apart.
Reflecting back on 1995.