Stories of outsiders who want to be insiders, and vice versa.
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Act One
Act Two
My Worklife
Independent producer Dan Collison, on Pilottown and a feature story that fell apart. (10 minutes)
Act Three
My Church Life
Susan Bergman and the Christian convention. Susan is the author of Anonymity. (19 minutes)
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Act Two: Fists And Guns
Geoffrey Canada, author of the book Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America, talks about what it's like to carry a gun. He also talks about what poor neighborhoods in New York were like before the proliferation of handguns among young people. When he grew up in the South Bronx, kids had fistfights in a very formal arrangement with formal rules that everyone lived by.
Act Three: Climb Every Mountain
Writer David Rakoff travels to a place where everyone seems to be looking at him, a place where no one follows the customs people follow back home in New York City, a place called...New Hampshire.
Act Four: Cross Trainers
Fat is seen by so many people as a kind of moral issue.
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