Niagara

#101 - 1 May 1998

During this hour, a special edition of our show: Stories about Niagara Falls, half of them from documentary producer Alix Spiegel, who went to the Falls and interviewed people living there; and half from playwright David Kodeski, who grew up in the town of Niagara Falls.

Radio

#100 - 24 April 1998

For the 100th episode of This American Life, a radio show about the pleasures of radio. About what makes radio so great ... and what makes it so terrible.

I Enjoy Being A Girl, Sort Of

#99 - 10 April 1998

Variations on what it means to be a girl and what it means to be a woman.

Throwing the First Punch

#98 - 27 March 1998

Stories about what it means to be a person who throws the first punch ... and how hard it is to give up.

Death to Wacky

#97 - 20 March 1998

An assault on the idea of wackiness. And then, an appreciation of wackiness, and an analysis of wackiness in American culture. Thirteen ways to describe wackiness.

Pinned by History

#96 - 13 March 1998

People who left their private lives and were seized by some huge historical moment.

Monogamy

#95 - 6 March 1998

How should we react to people who are in non-monogamous relationships? What should we think of these struggles with monogamy?

How To

#94 - 27 February 1998

What happens during a "how-to," and what our how-to's say about us. Most how-to's promise that you'll not only learn skills, you'll be transformed.

Valentine's Day '98

#93 - 13 February 1998

Stories about couples that all take place decades after that moment their eyes first meet.

Leave the Mask On

#92 - 6 February 1998

Stories about those moments when someone tries to tell you a little bit more about themselves than you'd really rather know.