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Ira Glass, Host of This American Life, talks about books that have made a difference in his life in this New York Times Sunday Book Review.
What book is on your night stand now? Everything I'm reading right now is homework of one sort or another. That's pretty typical. I'm jumping around like a grad student, writing a paper on Mary Wingerd's history, "North Country: The Making of Minnesota," for this big story we're doing on the show about the Dakota Uprising of 1862.
