In this show, listen to stories of the irresistible.
With stories by:
Host: Jonathan Ames, a writer and performer, is the author of I Love You More Than You Know, I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not To Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, and Wake Up, Sir!
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 1996. In 2005 he was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers,The Tipping Point and Blink.
John Johnson is an Emmy award-winning news anchor, journalist and reporter. He was the senior correspondent for WABC's Eyewitness News, and the anchor for WCBS in New York. He is also a distinguished painter.
Patty Marx has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times and was a staff writer on SNL and Rugrats. Her latest book is Him Her Him Again: The End of Him.
Joyce Maynard is the author of the memoir At Home in the World, and the novels To Die For, The Usual Rules, and Internal Combustion. She is also a magazine journalist and can be heard on NPR.
David Rakoff is the author of Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable. A contributor to This American Life, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine, he can be seen, fleetingly, in the films Strangers With Candy and Capote.
Richard Panek is the author of The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes and Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds.
Violinist: Katy Cox
