Ira Glass revitalized radio storytelling in 1995 when he created “This American Life” for Chicago Public Radio. The show now reaches a million and a half listeners every week and has made its way to television. The common denominator of all this success is Ira Glass’ intelligent, highly skilled, and slightly goofy gift for creating on-air intimacy and powerful narrative moments that illuminate larger truths. Ira Glass is part storyteller, part journalist, and completely riveting.

"We’re blessed from time to time, with a spontaneous generation of humor and insight.... [Ira Glass] finds & uncovers drama and humor in the most pedestrian of places."
—David Mamet

"Glass … filters his interviews and impressions through a distinctive literary imagination, an eccentric intelligence, and a sympathetic heart." —The New York Times

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