Seven Things I’ve Learned: An Evening with Ira Glass at Kupferberg Center for the Arts

Join one of America’s most compelling public radio personalities as he shares lessons from his life and career in storytelling. Using audio clips, music and video, Ira Glass takes us into his creative process: What inspires him to create? What drives his passion? How have failures and successes informed his decisions?

Ira Glass, who began his career as an intern at National Public Radio (NPR) in 1978, is the creator, producer, and host of This American Life, the iconic weekly public radio program he launched in 1995 that attracts more than 5 million listeners around the world every week. The show has been awarded the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including six Peabody Awards and the very first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a radio show or podcast, breaking all records to become the most popular podcast ever created.

Named Time magazine’s “Best Radio Host in America,” Glass uses a mix of audio clips, music, and video to pull back the curtain on his process, life, and career as one of America’s foremost storytellers.