In a recent interview on The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC Radio) Ira Glass, from THIS AMERICAN LIFE (NPR), spoke about his collaboration with Author David Rakoff on creating the Audiobook for Rakoff’s brand-new book titled: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (Doubleday). Of course the regular format of the book is being released today, July 16th, and has already received a ton of praise and great book reviews. Please be sure to look for it on your next visit of your favorite bookstore. You’ll be glad you did. (We also want to mention that Chip Kidd designed this book’s cover and contents).

The audio we have here is the interview with Ira Glass. He was interviewed by Guest Host, Martha Plimpton. She did an amazing job and they both covered the book, and David’s life, extremely well. Please give it a quick listen!

The always super-awesome THIS AMERICAN LIFE Radio Show just recently celebrated their 500th episode and SLATE Magazine interviewed Ira Glass about it. Down below is their series of interview videos and they share a lot of insight in to how the show was created, how Ira Glass gets people to open-up in interviews, and also what it’s like to finally hit 500!