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January 01, 1990 - January 31, 2013 + This American Life
I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort of
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The various ways of being a woman. David Sedaris writes about his sister Amy, and how she refuses to act like a pretty girl,...
Four Corners
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There's a tourist monument called Four Corners, where Arizona,
Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet. In this episode, we try to tell the
story of life in...
High Cost of Living
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Jack Hitt on a moment when living is harder than dying. And other stories.
Monogamy
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In what will likely be the wake of the impeachment hearings, we re-run a show we first broadcast in the opening weeks of the...
Valentine's Day '99
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For Valentine's Day, stories of impossible love, love that announces itself in situations and places where it's not expected or easy.
20th Century Man
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The story of a man who was a preacher-in-training in the 1940's, a movie actor and beat generation writer in the 50's, a man in...
Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
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A visit to a historical site where people try to re-live the experience of being African American slaves. A member of the staff talks...
You Gonna Eat That?
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Three stories about families and everything you can learn about them at the kitchen table. This show includes a beautiful new documentary from Jay Allison's...
Poultry Slam -98
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For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all...
Windfall
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What gobs of money can do to your life. Alix Spiegel visits a Minnesota tribe who've built a casino and are ...
Blame It on Art
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The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure. And what's so great about art. David Sedaris tells the story of his shortlived...
Ladies and Germs
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Germs, and the people who become obsessed with them. Includes stories by Hanna Rosin and NPR's Frank Browning.
Adventures in the Simple Life
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Two brothers set out with a friend to cross America on horseback. They take a tape recorder with them, to make a kind of audio...
Truth and Lies at Age Ten
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When he was ten years old, Dan Gediman was cast in the public TV show "Zoom." Then he was cut from the cast. So he...
Tales From the Net
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Are people having experiences on the Internet they wouldn't have anywhere else? This American Life -invited listeners to help answer that question, and several hundred...
