This week we released our second episode of Working It Out with Ira Glass! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/25-ira-glass-the-highly-anticipated-return/id1515419751?i=1000502292432 If you’re following the artistic process of this whole project THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU. It’s Ira being his most Ira on the second draft of a piece of writing I shared with him on our first episode in June. Plus, I ask him what it takes to get a story on This American Life and whether the latest draft of my new

In 1995, Ira Glass co-founded the weekly public-radio show and podcast “This American Life.” The show has had the same essential format for 28 years and more than 800 episodes. “It was instrumental in creating a genre of audio journalism that has flourished in recent decades,” Sarah Larson writes. “This American Life” has trained a generation of talented people, and Glass’s three-act structures, chatty cadences, and mixture of analysis and whimsy are now so familiar as to seem unremarkable. “At

Our third annual Interviews Issue features wide-ranging conversations with people of note on politics, culture, and craft. Read the first two interviews, with Nicolas Cage and Ira Glass, and check back for new conversations each day this week: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tF26PY | The New Yorker