Overview:

On this episode, Rob and Britta explore the audio work of Alex Kotlowitz, a documentariean and writer best known for There Are No Children Here. He's spent years building a quietly stunning body of non-narrated stories for Chicago Public Radio and This American Life. Britta's conversation with Alex is woven into our discussion of his stories about home, money, love, and trauma.

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Links for this episode:

A Trip to the Boundary Waters – The New Yorker Radio Hour

Panthers and Palm Trees – Stories of Home, produced with Amy Drozdowska

Mothers of Invention – This American Life Episode 298, Getting and Spending

An Almost Perfect Guy – Love Stories, produced with Amy Drozdowska

In Country, In City – This American Life #484, Doppelgängers

Harper High School, Part One – This American Life Episode 487

Harper High School, Part Two – This American Life Episode 488

The Bigness of the Small Story – Alex's 2016 Third Coast talk

Amy Drozdowska – the full Stories of Home, Love Stories, and money series archives

An Audio Mural with Alex Kotlowitz

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An Audio Mural with Alex Kotlowitz