Steven Merkel should be dead. Merkel is the General Counsel of Cantor, Fitzgerald, the finance firm based on the top floors of the World Trade Center that lost over 500 employees on September 11th, 2001. That morning Merkel made a series of out-of-character stops on his way to work that delayed him. If he’d gotten there 30 seconds earlier he would have died. He tells the story of what happened to him that day, of talking to friends as they faced death, of seeing people throw themselves from the building and losing friends who will be “forever young.”

Original Air Date: 9/10/07

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Tom Wright was a photographer of rock and roll through the most fun and crazy periods of the 60’s and 70’s. He tells stories of his encounters with The Who and many others, and talks about his book of photographs, Road Work.

Original Air Date: 8/7/2007

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A book by Washington Post reporter, Jabari Asim looking at the third rail of American speech, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why.

Original Air Date: 5/31/07

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Winning the Oscar for “Documentary-Short” may not be the biggest award, but it gave filmmaker Thomas Lennon one of the funniest adventures of his life. He tells the story of the absurdities of what happens when you win and how to get the Oscar statue through airport security.

Original Air Date: 4/19/07

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Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a cartoonist and the wife of Robert Crumb. Her art — and her interview — is blunt, honest, embarrassing and hilarious.

Original Air Date: 2/22/07

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