He’s the greatest Jewish storyteller of our generation — isn’t it time for him to win the Nobel Prize?
Yes, it’s time for Ira Glass to step up to the podium in Oslo — and time for the Nobel to modernize
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Culture How ‘This American Life’ Changed The #MeToo Conversation
“It felt so unusual to hear women talking publicly about things that women talk about with friends,” Chana Joffe-Walt said. Joffe-Walt, a producer for “This American Life,” was discussing an episode of the show that had just gone viral. She had constructed the episode, titled “Five Women,” after months of painstaking reporting, and it had…
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Culture Makers Of ‘Serial,’ ‘This American Life’ Announce New Podcast
If you love “This American Life” and “Serial,” you’re in luck: This morning, the creators of those two podcasts announced that in two short weeks they’ll release a new podcast, “S-Town.” Better yet? All of the episodes will be released on March 28, so you can binge-listen to your heart’s content. Hey world! Our brand…
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Culture When Holocaust Survivor Tormented Hitler’s Henchman — as Told to ‘This American Life’
(JTA) — It sounds like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film. A Holocaust survivor, whose mother and sister were killed in the genocide, said he locked a Nazi prisoner in a shed for three days, made him strip and urinated on his face, “This American Life,” the weekly public radio show, Sunday. “I told him, from…
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The Schmooze Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia Talk Shop About New Movie
In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, “This American Life” creator Ira Glass and comedian Mike Birbiglia talked comedy, improv, the creative process and what it means to give up on your dreams in a discussion about their new movie, “Don’t Think Twice.” The movie, which was written by Birbiglia and produced by Glass,…
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Culture So, Why Are All Podcasters Jewish Anyway?
Jews dominate podcasting. Don’t believe me? Put away your mah-jongg, grandma, because today we’re counting Jews. A list of hosts of the top podcasts in iTunes reads like a passenger manifest on the Exodus: Ira Glass (“This American Life”), Robert Krulwich (“Radiolab”), Peter Sagal (“Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”), Stephen Dubner (“Freakonomics Radio”), Terry Gross (“Fresh…
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The Schmooze This Israeli Life
A young Israeli grad student named Mishy holds up a cardboard sign that says “anywhere” as he hitchhikes out of Cambridge, England. He catches a ride with a Gypsy family bound for the ferry to France. In the vessel’s cafeteria Mishy meets a truck driver name Vladimir who agrees to take him to Spain. Only,…
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The Schmooze Ira Glass on Making Movies and Sleepwalking
Ira Glass is no Howard Stern — yet. By that we mean he isn’t the King of All Media (Stern’s self-anointed title), but at the very least he’s the crown prince and heir apparent. Glass, of course, is the host of Chicago Public Radio’s popular program This American Life. More recently, he’s taken on the…
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