817: The Cavalry Is Not Coming

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When you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next? Prologue: Saddam Sayyaleh’s job right…

Music Review: Cut Worms – Cut Worms

2 years ago

( Jagjaguwar) Nearly three years after releasing their beautiful and sprawling double album Nobody Lives Here Anymore, Cut Worms (the…

Longform Podcast #565: Susan B. Glasser

2 years ago

Susan Glasser, the former editor of Politico and Foreign Policy, writes the "Letter from Washington" column for the The New…

Addiction and Creative People

2 years ago

Addictive behavior can interfere with our creative life “I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to…

816: Poultry Slam

2 years ago

During the highest turkey consumption period of the year, we bring you a This American Life tradition: stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks,…

Music Review: The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons – The Hives

2 years ago

Music Reviews (The Hives AB) Time can be unkind to a band like the Hives. Despite not releasing an album…

Longform Podcast #547: Jamie Loftus

2 years ago

Jamie Loftus is a comedian, writer, and podcaster. Her new book is Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs.…

821: Embrace the Suck

2 years ago

People finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it. Prologue: A…

Longform Podcast #546: Javier Zamora

2 years ago

Javier Zamora is the author of Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and Solito, a memoir. “There was something that I felt…

815: How I Learned to Shave

2 years ago

Things our dads taught us, whether they intended to or not. Prologue: Ira talks about the time his dad taught…