Jeffrey Solomon's divorced parents fight during his bar mitzvah but his older sister saves the day. Literary pilgram Edgar Oliver takes a wild journey to Morocco to discover that he has the same bed spread as Paul Bowles. Elif Shafak is a Turkish novelist whose determination to finish a book is finally rattled by an earthquake. She decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world. Hosted by George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.
Banner image: Edgar Oliver. Photo by Sarah Stacke